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VOL. XII. MARCH, 1892. No. 143. errors and unseemly bigotry. But happily a
new spirit has arisen, and a great abundance
of material is now within reach of the En-
CONTENTS.
glish reader. Barth's - Religions of India" is
fair, accurate, and comprehensive, though lack-
INDIAN LITERATURE FOR ENGLISH READ ing in orderly arrangement, and wholly desti-
ERS. Joseph Henry Crooker. ....... 381
tute, unfortunately, of quotations illustrative
A SOLDIER'S TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER. Charles
of the piety and ethics of the great religious sys-
King ................ 383
tems described. The volume on India in John-
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Sara A. Hubbard . . 383 son's - Oriental Religions” is a sympathetic
OLD-TIME FURNISHINGS. C. A. L. Richards . . 387 study of the subject, but is somewhat diffuse
RECENT BOOKS ON GREEK LIFE, LITERATURE,
in style, with an over-refinement of speculative
AND ART. M. L. D’Ooge . . . . . . . . 390
opinions and a too continuous assertion of cer-
tain peculiar philosophical theories. Muir's
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS . ......... 392
“ Sanskrit Texts” is a work for the scholar
Alice Earle's The Sabbath in Puritan New England.
- Wendell's Life of Cotton Mather.-Walker's Life
rather than the general reader, but it is still
of Thomas Hooker.- Myrtilla Daly's Paraphrase of invaluable in its way. The writings of Max
Charron's Treatise on Wisdom.--- Oscar Browning's Müller contain much of interest to both special
Goethe. -- Oscar Browning's Dante. -- Wicksteed's
Ibsen.-Hutton's Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh. student and common reader, but they aim to
- Brown's The Fine Arts.- Collingwood's The Art expound the philosophy of religion, or the re-
Teaching of John Ruskin. — Matthews's The Dra-
ligious evolution of the human mind, as illus-
matic Essays of Charles Lamb. Stephenson's Pub-
lic Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Repub trated by Hindu myths and Sanskrit roots,
lic.-Mabie's Short Studies in Literature.--Berdoe's rather than to describe the popular faiths and
Browning Cyclopædia. -F. Mary Wilson's Primer on
forms which the later Hindus have produced.
Browning.
At present, the student has access in English
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING PUBLICATIONS 396
to enough of Hindu literature to afford a wide
TOPICS IN MARCH PERIODICALS ...... 400
range of investigation. Griffith has given us
BOOKS OF THE MONTH . ......... 401 a translation of the “ Rāmāyana," and his little
volume of “ Selections" will prove of great in-
--- ---- - - -
terest to those who can go no farther; Talboys-
INDIAN LITERATURE FOR ENGLISII
Wheeler, in his “ History of India," has given
READERS.*
a free prose version of the same poem ; Davies,
It is now a little over a century since Wil-
| and also Chatterji, have put the “ Bhagavad-
kins translated the “ Bhagavad-Gītā” into
Gitā” before us in very attractive form ; Sir
English and Sir William Jones founded the
Edwin Arnold, in "Indian Idylls" and "Indian
Royal Asiatic Society. The translation of
Poetry,” has made very felicitous renderings
the “ Law of Manu” by the latter, a little
of many choice bits of Oriental song; in the
later, was the opening of the door into the
“ Sacred Books of the East " we have access
marvellously rich treasure-house of Hindu lit-
to ancient codes, ceremonial hymns, and philo-
erature and philosophy; while the essay on
sophical treatises ; while Protap Chandra Roy,
the Veda" by Mr. Colebrooke, at the be-
a philanthropic Hindu scholar, as the result
ginning of this century (1805), afforded the
of herculean efforts is laying at our feet a
Western World the first accurate information
prose translation of the entire Mahā-bhārata,"
respecting that ancient scripture. And yet
which, though very prosaic and infelicitous, is
the popular accounts, in cyclopædias and man-
accurate, unvarnished, and free from western
uals, of the religious life and belief of India,
influences.
ancient and modern, current even forty years
The work on “ Brāhmanism and Hindūism,"
ago, were as a rule full of the most grotesque
by Monier-Williams, attempts to supply a place
never before filled,—“. To give such a clear ac-
* BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM: or, Religious Thought and count of a very obscure and intricate subject
Life in India, as based on the Veda, etc. By Sir Monier
Monier-Williams, K.C.I.E. Fourth edition, enlarged and
| as shall not violate scholarly accuracy, and yet
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general readers,” And it is evident that the in reference to an insignificant matter. A de-
author has succeeded to a marked degree. He scription of how the Veda grew up, and of
has produced a work full of interesting infor what it is like, would have added great value
mation, as might have been expected from such and interest to the volume. Many facts are
a veteran in the cause of Sanskrit literature indeed stated here and there, but no connected
and such an earnest student of Oriental re story is told. , While some attention is paid to
ligions. And while full of information this the - Hymns of the Rig Veda," no effort is
work is clear in its outlines, the writer having made to trace the evolution of the doctrine of
mastered his material instead of being mas God in them as might well have been done.
tered by it; he has exercised a wise selection, The “ Law of Manu," and other Hindu codes,
having kept his pages free from those needless afford material for an interesting study in
details which confuse, while giving the specific comparative jurisprudence, considered in its
facts which make his narrative instructive and broadest aspects; but even a beginning in
luminous. There is probably no other single this direction is not made here. It is a de-
volume which will so thoroughly satisfy the cided misfortune that the two great Indian
intelligent reader. Its spirit is neither dog epics/" Mahā-bhārata ” and “ Rāmāyana”—
matic nor apologetic, but just and catholic, in are passed over with so brief a mention, little
this respect in advance of his recent treatise more than incidental reference being made to
on Buddhism,—this work being a piece of ap them. It would have been better to shorten
preciative description, which does credit to the treatment of modern superstitions — tree
the author and marks the triumph of a more and animal worship, and the like — and to in-
scientific spirit in this department of scholar troduce the reader to that literature which is
ship than was exhibited by so fair a man as still a living agency making for righteousness
James Freeman Clarke in his - Ten Great in India, and which, too, amid its tangled
Religions.” It is comprehensive in its plan, jungles, has flowers of exquisite beauty and
including the ancient Vedic faith, the philos perfume, that are a joy and an inspiration to
ophy of the Upanishads, the Brāhmanic cere behold.
monials, the sects of more recent centuries, a This work is, then, more valuable as a de-
sketch of the forms and superstitions of mod- scription of “ Modern Hindūism” than as a
ern Hindūism, together with a good account treatise on the ancient philosophy and litera-
of the efforts at reform recently made in the ture of India. In Chapters III.-VI. may be
line of pure theism. This work differs from found a full and appreciative description of the
Johnson's - India ” in its wider range of top- principal Hindu sects — their temples, idols,
ies and in its greater attention to the modern and ceremonies ; and also the story of the re-
phases of religion among the Hindus; it dif form movements, like the Sikhs and Rā-
fers from the volumes by Max Müller in being mānuja sect, is here better told than anywhere
less linguistic and philosophical, while being else, while this judgment is given respecting
more historical and descriptive; it differs from these movements in general: “Without doubt,
Barth's - Religions of India” in giving a fuller the tendency of their doctrines is toward purity
and better-ordered survey of Hindu religious of life.” Probably as interesting parts of this
life on its more practical side.
book to the general reader are Chapters XIII.-
The present work, however, is not without XVI., where the religious features of the an-
its limitations, and it is to be regretted that its cient family-life are portrayed — religion to
author failed to incorporate in it a fuller treat the Hindu is preëminently a family duty,
ment of certain topics. In a few pages he “ Any idea of congregational religious duties
might have made the origin, structure, and has no place in his mind," —and where, too,
characteristics of the Veda much clearer than in contrast, is set forth the religious character
he has. The learner must still turn for satis of the modern Hindoo family, its rigid and
faction to his own little manual on Hindūism, elaborate ceremonies from birth to death, with
or to Max Müller's “ Physical Religion." A minute formalities attending every trivial cir-
few words respecting the growth of our knowl cumstance of life, the ever-recurring fasts, fes-
edge of these scriptures — a quite romantic tivals, temple celebrations, and idol proces-
story in itself — would have been welcome and sions. The origin, the nature, and the tyranny
appropriate ; but Sir William Jones is not of caste is ably treated in Chapter XVIII.,
mentioned, while Mr. Colebrooke's work is where the general truth is stated: “ It is easy
passed over, his name occurring only in a note to see, therefore, that caste and occupation were


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formerly convertible terms. The number of special religious ceremonials.” There is a very
these trade-castes is at present quite incalcu- interesting account, in Chapter XVIII., of
lable. There seems to be no limit to their Hindu artists and artisans, and the remark is
formation. New ones are continually forming. made: “ We must go to India for the best il-
Old ones are continually passing away.” Over lustration of the truth that the human hand is
fifty pages — none too many — are given to the most wonderful of all machines." This
- Modern Hindu Theism.” In Chapters XIX. i passage is well worth quoting: “ Be it ob-
and XX. the work of Rāmmohun Roy, served, however, that the wives of India, un-
Dwārkanāth Tāgore, and Keshab Chandar less they belong to the upper classes, have
Sen is described in a very sympathetic spirit, complete freedom, and are allowed to go every-
and these and other leaders of the “ Brahma where. It is noteworthy, too, that wives do
Samāj” are given ample praise. These are not adopt their husband's name, as European
men who make us rejoice in our common hu- wives do. It is only theoretically that they
man nature, and strengthen our hope for In- merge their individuality in his. Note, too,
dia. Of the former, the author nobly writes: that they are generally loved, and that cruel
“ Probably Rāmmohun Roy was the first ear treatment by brutal husbands is unknown."
nest - minded investigator of the science of Let us take leave of this interesting volume
comparative religion that the world has pro- by quoting from its chapter (XXI.) devoted
duced.”
to the moral precepts of the Hindus — neither
It may not be amiss to bring together a as full nor as satisfactory, however, as Muir's
few of the more striking sentences in this "Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers"
work. On the subject of sacrifice, we find - this specimen :
this : “ It is certainly remarkable that the idea “This is the sum of all true righteousness —
of sacrifice as an atonement for sin seems Treat others as thou wouldst thyself be treated.
never to have taken firm hold of the Hindu
Do nothing to thy neighbor which hereafter
Thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do to thee.
mind.” This fact accounts largely for the op-
In causing pleasure, or in giving pain,
position of Hindus to missionaries who preach
In doing good, or injury to others,
In granting or refusing a request,
a sacrificial theory of the atonement. At
A man obtains a proper rule of action
present, the maintenance of sacred fire by each By looking on his neighbor as himself.”
family and the offering of animal sacrifice are
-- Mahā-bhārata.
obsolete or obsolescent in India, with the ex-
JOSEPH HENRY CROOKER.
ception of the worship of the goddess Kāli.
This is an interesting fact : “ No shrine or
temple to Brahmă [the Supreme God) is to be
A SOLDIER'S TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER.*
found throughout all India. The one self-
existent Brahmă can only become an object of
Human nature is much the same in all ages.
meditation and knowledge. The Spirit is to " A prophet is not without hovor but in his
be known by the spirit, for he is enshrined in own country and among his own kin.” We
every man's heart, and this internal medita will claim any glory as a nation, accept it for
tion is regarded as the highest religious act." | ourselves as individuals, but are amazed when
And while many names for God are used and
it is conferred upon a fellow-citizen whom we
many temples are dedicated to different gods,
have known for years. No man is a hero to his
yet they are all viewed as different phases of
valet-de-chambre, and precious few are to their
the One God, whose truest worship is purely next-door neighbors. Lincoln was laughed at
spiritual, as a Brāhman said to Monier-Wil and ridiculed as a candidate. Listening thou-
liams : “ All orthodox Hindus believe in one sands applauded the rounded periods of Ed-
universal spirit, who becomes Supreme Lord ward Everett at Gettysburg, but wondered
over all.... We may propitiate every
why the awkward President spoke at all. The
one of them (referring to the different popular oration of the first is long since forgotten ; the
names for God] with ceremonies and sacrifices,
words of the latter will live and thrill to all
but the Supreme Being present in these gods eternity. Grant's modest tender of services
is the real object of all our offerings and re to an omniscient adjutant-general in '61 was
ligious services.” Turning to another subject,
tossed contemptuously aside. Sherman's prof.
it is very pleasant to read : “ Happily for In fer met with no reply. Sheridan begged the
dian households, the drinking of stimulating
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and could not get it. The friends and fellow- Laramie. We welcomed scholarly and courtly
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and pour the gold of America into foreign any man in America ? Only with his sudden
palms. Tennyson and Thiers, Kipling and and lamented death did we begin to know him
Hugo, chant the valor of the soldiers of En- as he was — the ideal of devotion to duty, of
gland and France, and we run to read. Ver lofty honor, of perfect truth, of purity of life
net, Detaille, De Neuville, Meissonier, and and purpose. For a time the papers glowed
Elizabeth Thompson Butler, have pictured on with tributes from his comrades of the Loyal
glowing canvas the deeds of Caporal Crapaud Legion, of the army, and of the far West, but
and Tommy Atkins, and we gaze in fascina these too soon gave place to other themes ; and
tion ; but only of late have Remington and not until now have we had placed before the
Zogbaum shown us the little army of our own reading public in permanent and attractive
which we had forgotten. Some years ago a form the tribute of a soldier-writer who could
Western writer declared that we had lost more speak from the point of view of one who for
officers, killed or died of wounds received in many a long year, through the most stirring
Indian battle in a decade of national peace, campaigns, was the General's aide-de-camp,
than did the British army in all the Crimea, amanuensis, inseparable companion, and “own
with Alma, Inkerman, and Balaklava, and the familiar friend." That man is Captain John
few who read would not believe. When the Chi G. Bourke, of the Third United States Car-
cago - Times” published its series of graphic alry, who was so recently conspicuous on the
letters from the front during the Sioux cam Rio Grande frontier in the chase after the in-
paign of '76, there was brief opening of eyes surgent Garza.
at the tale of hard fighting, suffering, and star In a handsomely bound and illustrated vol-
vation, and possibly even more in ’77, when ume of nearly five hundred pages, Captain
those ragged war-worn troopers were whirled Bourke tells of the thrilling days in Arizona
Eastward to rescue us from mob violence, and, when every rock was a gravestone, every -buck-
with the alkali dust still clinging to their board” a hearse, and every cañon an ambush.
bearded faces and hiding the scars of the year From the date of his graduation at West Point
before, they were cheered through our streets. in '69, he saw month after month of almost
People were too busy, however, long to bother daily battling with the fiercest tribe on the
their heads about the battles alleged to be go continent. For two years the efforts of the
ing on on the Western frontier. The Custer | troops were misdirected by generals who held
tragedy gave a temporary shock, to be sure ; aloof from the scene of hostilities. Then came
but between the Centennial and the presiden Crook, fresh from his victories over Bannock,
tial campaign it had no chance of extended Snake, and Pah Ute, skilled in Indian warfare,
mention. We often saw Sheridan in civilian a model to every officer and man. Headquar-
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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.*
Angeles by the sea to the extreme skirmish
The heart of the naturalist warms at the
line at the front, and there headquarters re-
names of Wilson, Audubon, and Nuttall. They
mained throughout the war. For years the
were the three great pioneers in the study of
Apache had been lord of all the soil. Now he
North American birds, and the splendid serv-
met a chief who made no promise he did not
ice they rendered in the department of de-
keep, a soldier who seldom slept and never
smoked nor swore, who drank only water and
scriptive ornithology remains to the present
little of that, who ate with the humblest trooper,
day unsurpassed, and in certain features has
never been equalled. All three were men of
and more often supplied his men than was sup-
foreign blood. Alexander Wilson, “the Pais-
plied by them with game, who fought to thrash
the Indians when they would not behave and
ley weaver," had reached the age of twenty-
to protect them when they did, who completely
eight when necessity compelled him to seek a
whipped them into subjection in less than two
refuge in our hospitable country. During the
years and was then sent away to try conclu-
following ten years he gained a humble living,
sions with the Sioux. The story reads like
first at weaving and next at school-teaching.
Then the instincts of nature prevailed, and he
romance, but is as true as gospel. Captain
Bourke's note-books, faithfully kept through
gave his life, as he had previously given his
heart, to the pursuits of the ornithologist. It
all his years of service with the general whom
he so faithfully served and loved, fairly bristle
was the striking beauty of the red-headed wood-
with detail and fact that enable him to com-
pecker, frequently encountered in his daily
plete a narrative that has no mate in Ameri-
walks, that won him to this decision, we are
can literature—the story of Crook's campaigns
told; and four years later (in 1808) the first
volume of his “ American Ornithology” was
against almost every hostile tribe upon our
border. It abounds in thrilling incident, it
presented to the public. Volume succeeded
volume, until the seventh was completed in
ripples with quaint humor, it expands some-
| times into the realm of the naturalist — for
1813, when the work of the industrious inves-
tigator was cut short by death, and it was left
Bourke was student as well as soldier. It
to other hands to put in shape the still un-
brings one face to face with nature under the
brazen skies of Arizona or the snow-capped
wrought materials he had gathered, and add
peaks of the Big Horn. It gives evidence at
them to the previous collection. The finished
work contained an account of 280 species of
times of apparent slashing out of whole para-
birds, with colored illustrations of the greater
graphs, some pages being written with fond and
number drawn by Wilson's own skilful pencil.
lingering touch and others at the pas de charge;
He was a poet as well as a student, and his
it abounds in kindly mention of comrades of
all grades, and avoids censure of any. It robs
biographies of the different members of the
no man of honors due him, and only once or
feathered race evince a delicate sensibility and
twice credits men with being where they were
a depth of tender feeling. On reading his
pages we are led to fall in love with the birds
not. It is as modest as Moltke's famous work,
in that the author has next to nothing to say
through the contagion of his enthusiasm, which
imparts an engaging charm to his artless and
of himself (he had won the medal of honor
fervent descriptions. His book was the most
for daring at Stone River, before ever he
donned the gray at West Point, and no man
ambitious and comprehensive treatise on the
subject that had yet been produced, and secured
ever heard him allude to it), and finally he
to its author the title of " The father of Ameri-
has told an unvarnished tale of years of savage
battle, of stern campaign, of trials and suffer-
can Ornithology."
ings and starvation unflinchingly borne for
While Wilson was prosecuting his researches
in the Eastern United States, John Audubon,
duty's sake, and has given an insight into the
unconscious of the work of his contemporary,
character and deeds of our little army of the
had entered into the same field of inquiry, im-
West that Americans, fathers and mothers,
pelled in a similar manner by the bias of a
sons and daughters, should read and rejoice
in. It is a soldier's tribute to one of the no-
strong individuality. His observations were
blest of American soldiers and gentlemen, and
for a considerable period confined to the region
a monument to the bravery and devotion of our * THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA:
little force on the far frontier.
A Popular Handbook, based on Nuttall's Manual. By Mon-
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bordering the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and on to the Rocky Mountains and the Columbia
the two naturalists met only once, and then River ---- an adventure of no easy execution at
casually. Though a native of Louisiana, Au that early period. From 1822 to 1834 he oc-
dubon was of pure French extraction, and in- cupied the chair of Natural History at Harvard
herited many choice traits which characterize | College, and later, on inheriting an estate, he
the brilliant and versatile Celt. Remarkably returned to his native country. Before leav.
handsome and graceful in person, frank and ing us he had enriched our accumulations in
gracious in manner, with natural gifts en science by his valuable "Genera of North Amer-
hanced by culture, he was fitted to adorn the ican Plants,” and by “ A Manual of the Orni-
refined society to which his birth and accom thology of the United States and Canada."
plishments admitted him. But an overpower Afterward, in England, he published three
ing love of nature's beauties, and especially of volumes in continuation of F. 0. Michaux's
her wild, free life, drew him from childhood work on “ The North American Sylva.”
to her most remote and secluded haunts, and “ Nuttall's Ornithology” enjoyed the distinc-
he was ever more at home in the wilderness tion of being the first “ handbook" on the sub-
than in the companionship of his kind. His ject prepared for popular use, and the esteem
achievements in the illustration of his beloved it had earned was shown in the demand for a
science are too well known to need more than second edition eight years after its original ap-
a passing allusion. Yet was Audubon more pearance in 1832. The book has been long
exclusively a poet and artist than is generally out of print, and the student of birds, realizing
understood. His contribution to ornithology its worth as a storehouse of careful observations
was chiefly that of a delineator of the external | pleasingly communicated, has sighed in vain
beauties and distinctive habits of the various for the possession of a copy. To supply the
feathered species. It was their wondrous mani need of general access to so valuable a book,
fold endowment of beauty, intelligence, and it is now republished, with amendments and
varied powers of locomotion, that fired his imag- additions bringing it abreast of the present
ination. For the plodding labors of the sci position of the science to which it is devoted.
entist he had little inclination. The birds once The present editor, Mr. Montague Chamber-
reproduced in vivid colors by his magic brush, lain, seems to be excellently equipped for the
and in equally vivid colors by his eloquent pen, duty he has undertaken. A close observer of
his task with them was ended. They were bird life, he has withal a true poetic instinct
forthwith put in pickle and despatched to the which puts him in harmony with the spirit of
eminent Scotch naturalist, William Macgilli- Nuttall's work, and makes him a fit annotator of
vray, who performed the careful anatomical the author's text. He has had a delicate office
analyses and furnished other details requisite to perform, in revising a book so endeared to
for correct classification, which rounded to a ornithologists that every change must be noted
proper symmetry Audubon's magnificent work. with jealous scrutiny. It is gratifying to find
His first volume of folio plates appeared in that the ordeal has been happily passed, and
1827-30, and the biographical text of " Birds the stamp of approval may be placed on the
of America ” in 1831-39.
work as it now stands.
Meanwhile there had been attracted to the In the edition of 1840, the book contained
veritable - land of promise " presented to the 1441 pages, divided into two thick volumes.
naturalist by the vast and teeming prairies and By judicious compression, the pages have now
forests of our new continent, a third ardent been reduced to 904, allowing the volumes a
spirit, in the person of Thomas Nuttall, a young more convenient size, while the type remains
Englishman who set foot on our shores the large and fair as before. The Introduction,
same year that saw the initial volume of Wil- which was an important feature of the book,
son's Ornithology in print. This youth was has been untouched. In form and substance it
already an expert botanist, and had come could scarcely be improved. The biographies
hither to make fresh acquisitions in a favorite follow each other nearly in the order in which
department of natural science. Flowers and Nuttall placed them, but to keep the work
birds are easily studied together. Who loves within desirable limits those have been omitted
one must love the other, and Nuttall was no ex which refer to species restricted to the terri-
ception to the rule. Ile extended his explora tory west of the Mississippi Valley. Some
tions through most of the United States and curtailments of the original text have been
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tained has been subjected to few and trifling will be so in the present instance. For cer-
alterations. The genius of the writer has in tainly Dr. Lyon's work is well done. If only
every way been reverently respected. No at those families who show with pride a bit of
tempt has been made to group the biographies furniture that “ came over in the Mayflower”
in accordance with the system of classification will purchase his volume, it will quickly be
which has been adopted since Nuttall's time; out of print. It was said, some years since,
but to each the editor has appended notes of that the “ Mayflower” could hardly have been
praiseworthy succinctness, containing informa- a single vessel of no great burden, but was evi-
tion regarding the habits and distribution of dently a large fleet!
birds gained by recent discoveries. He has | This book is “ a study of the domestic furni-
also furnished new and brief descriptions of ture in use in New England in the seventeenth
plumage, nest, and eggs. A fine colored plate and eighteenth centuries," from the landing of
fronts the title-page of each volume, and draw- the Pilgrims to the Revolutionary War. A
ings in black and white, of the highest order hundred and more admirable full-page illus-
of merit, are generously interspersed for further trations give us examples of that furniture,
illustration. In its present form the book is a gathered by collectors from old homesteads,
credit to editor and publishers, and will be mainly in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
gratefully welcomed by those who have a fond They include chests, cupboards, bureaus, desks,
ness for natural history.
chairs, tables, and clocks, with brief consider-
Ornithology, like other branches of modern ation, also, of china, earthenware, glass, and
science, has been greatly modified and elabo- plate. As the author has nothing to say of
rated in the past fifty years. Able men have bedsteads, wardrobes, screens, mirrors, candle-
been engaged in reducing it to an orderly and sticks, and fire-irons, he is perhaps reserving
permanent form. Yet the books of Wilson and these for another volume or a second edition.
Audubon and Nuttall cannot be superseded. Much of what he describes is in his own col-
We turn to them with that peculiar sentiment | lection, picked up in the last fourteen years in
of mingled love and veneration with which the and about Hartford, Connecticut, “a region:
monuments of genius are perpetually regarded. rich in the carved oaken woodwork of the ser-
With Isaac Walton and Thomas White of enteenth century.” When he began to gather
Selbourne, the three naturalists named above it, in 1877, “ there were a few others quietly
will be preserved from oblivion by the quaint engaged in the same pursuit.” There is a de-
sweet spirit infused into their writing, by the lightful unconscious humor in that word “ qui-
personal value of their observations of nature, etly," as if it were the wont of collectors else-
and by the fine enthusiasm which lifts the where to go noisily to work and trumpet
whole into the purest spiritual atmosphere. abroad their intentions; as if it were not the
SARA A. HUBBARD.
note of your true collector to creep and glide
about with very Indian-hunter or sleuth-hound
stealth, to hide with jealous care his trail, and
let no one dream that he is on the scent of a
OLD-TIME FURNISHINGS.*
Chippendale chair, or a peach-blow vase, or a
• The Colonial Furniture of New England” Bay Psalm Book, or a United States copper of
is a superb quarto, from the Riverside Press, seventeen hundred and ever so many. Quietly,
printed and margined as subscription volumes indeed, Dr. Lyon and his fellow collectors
used to be when a list of noble and learned went about their work, and got together what
patrons marked the number and munificence the author with enthusiasm styles “these rich
of the author's friends, or perhaps the persist possessions," what their neighbors doubtless
ency with which he had haunted antechambers described as some rubbishy desks and rickety
and endured rebuffs to secure his more than chairs and crazy old tables. Their accumu-
half eleemosynary guineas before incurring the lated spoil began to suggest questions which
cost of publication. We have happily changed no one, off-hand, was ready to answer. So
all that since the days of Chesterfield and Dr. Lyon undertook a systematic study of his
Johnson. The great public proves the more findings, carried his investigations even over-
intelligent and liberal patron. Let us trust it seas to England and Holland, and learned
many things. He satisfied himself that most
*THE C'OLONIAL FURNITURE OF NEW ENGLAND. By Irv-
ing Whitall Lyon, M.D. Fully illustrated. Boston: Hough-
of the carved oak of New England was made
ton, Mifflin & Co.
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1668, and mahogany about 1700; that Wind there are but half a dozen entries known to our
sor chairs were known in Philadelphia not author of " carved," " wrought,” “ ingraved,
later than 1736 ; that the - court cupboard” | sett-worke” or “ inlayed worke” chests in
and “livery cupboard ” of early inventories are the earliest records. Yet numerous specimens
one and the same; and he has fixed approxi of a date previous to 1650 remain, of which
mately the date of introduction into New two, admirably carved, are depicted in plates
England of China and Delft ware, and silver 1 and 2 in Dr. Lyon's work. A little later oc-
forks, and of the domestic use of tea, coffee, and curs the first mention of a chest with drawers,
chocolate. He has had the good fortune to see which must be carefully distinguished from
in its place one of those scarce old appendages the chest of drawers or bureau which ap-
to high chests of drawers called “steps.” peared afterward. This is still a chest with a
These are not, as ignorance might surmise, movable lid, with one drawer, or at most two,
conveniences for reaching an upper drawer or at the bottom. They are found mounted upon
dusting the high top. They are a set of re legs square or turned. Such carving as there
ceding platforms, set upon the flat top of the may be is often colored red or black. There
tall structure, for the display, out of careless are applied wooden ornaments, carrot-shaped
reach, of choice bits of china. Such are a or egg-shaped, nail heads or triglyphs. The
collector's triumphs, precious to him as the wood is nearly always “rived and quartered to
pouncing upon an early Italian master or an show the grain.” Such chests were brought
Eliot Bible to huntsmen of other game. How over by the first settlers, and presently came
a sympathetic soul must envy him, as, after to be made on this side of the water. They
long puzzling over such an entry as this in an passed out of use early in the eighteenth cen-
inventory of the last century, " The steps and tury, and became curious heirlooms. The ma-
some small china thereon, 5s. and 4d.,” he terial is oak, yellow pine, chestnut, spruce,
chanced, in a certain house, upon a comely cypress, and cedar. The last named woods
chest of drawers, mounted on bandy legs of were serviceable, as camphor-wood afterward,
austere simplicity, marked the old-time scutch | to keep out moths.
eons and handles, travelled with curious eye Next to chests came cupboards, which our
from the floor to the topmost cornice, and dis Puritan ancestors, with their fine indifference
covered, high above, three diminishing stages, to orthography — that later impertinence, from
with camel-shaped teapots, and covered jugs which it is fair to say that the youth of the
and pitchers, and egg-shell cups and saucers, present age have very much emancipated
and on the very top a quaint sauce-boat with a themselves — enter as coppeboards, coberds,
fish-shaped mouth! The problem was solved. cobards, coobards, cuberds, cubberts, cubberds,
These be “the steps with china,” worth far cubbords, cubbards, cuboards, cubburds, cob-
more than 5s. and 4d. to the delighted discov erts, cobbords, and copards. In England such
erer. Our author suppresses his pride, as if receptacles have been earlier known as alme-
such finds were diurnal. But every fellow col ries, aumbries, or presses ; in France as ar-
lector knows his heart, and covets the laurels moires or dressoirs. The old names, press and
worn so modestly.
dresser, are still heard among old-fashioned
There is probably no more primitive article Yankee housekeepers. The article may be
of furniture than the chest. The rudest house defined as a box with shelves to hold and show
keeping demands some place of deposit. Its the family plate. The open ones were some-
cover is at once chair and table and desk, and times "livery” or “ court” cupboards. Those
if big enough it serves at need for bedstead. with doors were called cupboards simply. Some
It is of immemorial use, therefore. In En rested on the ground, and were like a deep
gland and France it began to be carved in the bookcase; others were hung upon the walls.
twelfth century and panelled in the thirteenth. They belonged in halls, parlors, and bedrooms.
The early New England inventories mention They grew into the modern sideboard, and we
"joined ” and “wainscot” and “ carved”. see the process of change in entries which
chests, which are probably different names for speak of a side cupboard and sideboard cup-
carefully constructed and ornamental work, board ; and we see their degeneration into the
and - board” and “ship” chests, which are recent what-not or étagère. What was known
the plainer boxes. New England of the sev- as the buffet, or beaufatt, or boffatt, or bofate,
enteenth century might seem a bare and fru- | or boffett, seems to have been an enclosed cup-
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of the room; while the corner cupboard was quarters processes of evolution and differenti-
usually a movable set of hanging shelves with
doors, the upper ones being commonly glazed, Dr. Lyon tells us that chairs were a scarce
and “the interior often finished with a shell commodity in early Colonial houses. Stools
like dome, or hood, richly carved."
and forms, or benches, took their place. The
What is now called a bureau, or chest of earliest chairs preserved in New England are
drawers, was not in vogue in New England of curiously-turned wood. The President's
until about the middle of the seventeenth cen- chair at Cambridge is a notable example. It
tury. They were low at first, and could serve is clumsy enough, but not without its distinc-
as dressing-tables. Later they came to be tion. Dr. Holmes has described it in his fa-
perched upon legs, generally six in number, miliar vein:
though sometimes four, and bandy-shaped, i. l.,
“A chair of oak,
Funny old chair with seat like wedge,
projecting slightly below the drawers which they
Sharp behind and broad front edge;
support, then receding gracefully, and pro-
One of the oddest of human things,
jecting again slightly towards the foot, which
Turned all over with knobs and rings,
But heavy and wide, and deep and grand."
is often a ball-and-claw foot in later speci-
mens. They were mounted with brass plates The Historical Society of Connecticut has
and scutcheons. Some examples are japanned, one not unlike it, though the turning is less
others rudely painted in black and yellow. elaborate, and the seat is square. Plainer
Presently the tops are crowned with the Pal turned chairs followed, of ash, birch, and hick-
ladian device of the interrupted arch. Such ory, with bottoms of twisted flag or the inner
specimens are called tall-boys, or high-boys. bark of the bass or elm. The “wainscot "
They had often dressing-tables to match. In chairs, of solid wood, with carved and pan-
some cases the drawers go down almost to the elled backs, are somewhat rare. Those with
Hoor. New woods seem to come in use — olive, leather seats and backs are not uncommon.
sycamore, maple, cherry, black walnut — some Roger Williams, who died in 1683, left a chair
times veneered “ with richer grain from the of “ Turkie-work,” which still remains in its
burr," or knotted parts of the tree. Veneer original covers. It is without arms, showing
ing seems to have begun in New England little of the wood, stuffed with salt-marsh
about 1700. The earliest mention of mahog grass, and covered, back and seat, with Turkey
any in England is about 1720. It came in rugs, evidently woven for the purpose. Late
use in Boston a dozen years later, but there in the seventeenth century, cane-seated chairs
are records of it as the material for bedsteads, are found. - Roundabout” chairs, with low
tables, and drawers, in Philadelphia, as early as curved back, at an angle, instead of a side of
1708.
the square seat, (ame in vogue about 1738.
Desks for writing, shallow boxes with slop Two years earlier is the first mention of the
ing lids, are found in New England no later Windsor chairs, of plain wood painted green.
than 1644. They were often covered with Chippendale chairs, with their ingeniously
cloth or velvet, and richly carved. A quarter carved backs, date about the middle of the
of a century later we hear of an escritore, or eighteenth century. A rare and beautiful ex-
scrutoir, or scritore, or scretore, or screetor, or ample of a double Chippendale is figured in
scrittore, or scredoar, or scriptore, or scrip Plate 81 in Dr. Lyon's book. After Chippen-
toree, which is what we moderns have known as dale came Heppelwhite and Sheraton chairs,
a secretary — a cabinet whose front lets down with their yet more elaborate carving and in-
and forms an inclined shelf for writing. There laying. This brings us toward the close of the
are pigeon-holes and small drawers in the desk century.
part, and larger drawers below, and turned or There is not so much interesting matter
bandy legs at the bottom. They came to be concerning tables, which were at first called
called “ burow-desks," and then “ beaurows." boards, and were simply planks laid across
Shelves for books, open or enclosed, sur trestles. These were passing away in the old
mounted them early in the eighteenth century. country as the first colonists left it, and what
Finally, the secretary was distinguished from we now know as a table took their place.
the bureau, the former name confined to the They are not yet quite disused, however, in
desk with bookcase and pigeon-holes, and the summer resorts in the White Mountains. Sim-
latter reserved for the usual chest of drawers ple extension tables were known at an early
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antedate marble-topped tables, though these the “ College Fetich” the spirit and essential
were in use in the seventeenth century, in features of the old Greek life and thought.
those old houses of New England magnates, so This is notably true of the classical scholars of
simply and conveniently designed, with the England, who have been very active of late in
small entry between the front door and the giving to the public, in popular but yet schol-
great central chimney, the main hall, the sit-arly form, the results of their studies. The
ting-room or keeping-room or dwelling-room list of books noticed below is only one install-
or living-room — it bore all these titles and ment of a goodly debt under which the present
was the dining-room also,--the parlor or with | generation of scholars in England have placed
drawing room, where the elders could retire both those who, so to say, take their Greek at
from the more public hall, and the kitchen: these second hand, and those who enjoy a look
were on the first floor; above them were the through others' eyes at what they may think
bedchambers, and over all was the spacious at- | is their own discovery..
tic or garret, the delight of the mice, the spiders, It is not easy to describe the book which
and the children.
Professor Ely has written on the basis of Dr.
We find some unusual words, too familiar Hans Dütschke's Der Olymp. For it is not a
to Dr. Lyon's ear, doubtless, to need explain systematic treatise on mythology, nor is it very
ing, in this pleasant volume. He tells of al readable; and yet these are the two grounds
chemy spoons, which are of mixed metal. He on which the author claims for his book the
speaks of coaches with squabs, which last ap- | right to exist. It would be difficult to assign
pears to have been plump cushions, or otto any just reason for including Pluto and Perse-
mans. Pope speaks of a lady —
phone among the so-called greater gods. The
“On her large squab you find her spread,
points of contact between the Greek and Ro-
Like a fat corpse upon a bed.”.
man mythology are stated, if at all, from a su-
We read of a painted canvas for the floor." perficial view. The chapter on Athena, which
Is this what we now call an oil-cloth ? And the author takes pains to say is entirely his
we read of “ carpets" as table-covers as well own work, is extremely inadequate. We point
as floor-covering. But our notice must end out a few inaccuracies, selected from a number.
without a word of clocks, of plate, glass, or On page 16 there is a manifest confusion be-
china. The volume has an appendix of cab tween Zeus Herkeios, the protector of the fam-
inet makers' prices in Providence in 1757, and ily, and Zeus Horkios, the guardian of oaths.
in Hartford in 1792, and ends, as all good On page 34 we are told that Polykleitos placed
books should, with a careful index.
the cuckoo on the shoulder of Hera because
C. A. L. RICHARDS.
this bird is the harbinger of spring. But Pau-
sanias tells us that in the image of Hera the
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sculptor placed the cuckoo on the sceptre, in
RECENT BOOKS OX GREEK LIFE, LITERA-
memory of the story that when Zeus wooed the
TURE, AND ART.*
maiden Hera he took the form of a cuckoo.
Whatever may be said for or against the
The fountain of Hippokrene is not on Parnas-
sus, but on Helicon. The small round pillars
study of Greek as Greek; — and more is being
said for it than against it of late, no one can
placed before the doors of the Greeks were sa-
doubt that there is a general movement among
cred to Apollo not as the god of light (p. 104),
but to Apollo Agyieus, the guardian of the
scholars to make better known to readers who
have not made the personal acquaintance of
ways. What can this sentence mean : “ As
the light renews its youth in the spring raised
* OLYMPUS: Tales OF THE GODS OF GREECE AND ROME.
up out of the sea, so Aphrodite emerges from
By Talfourd Ely, Professor of Greek at Bedford College.
the waves "? From a statement on page 214
New York ; G. P. Putnam's Sons.
SOME ASPECTS OF THE GREEK Genius. By S. H. Butcher,
we are led to infer that the goat took the place
Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. New of human sacrifice to Dionysos ; but every tyro
York: Macmillan & Co.
in Greek knows that the goat was sacrificed to
THE STORY OF THE ILIAD and THE STORY OF THE Odys-
SEY. With Illustrations after Flaxman. By the Rev. A. J.
Dionysos as the special enemy of the vine.
Church. Two volumes. New York: Macmillan & Co. The book presents a curious medley of rhetor-
A GUIDE TO GREEK TRAGEDY, FOR ENGLISH READERS. ical and plain writing. To be readable a book
By Lewis Campbell, Professor of Greek in the University of
St. Andrews. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
need not abound in such passages as this :
INTRODUCTORY STUDIES IN GREEK ART. By Jane E. Har
“ Should tempests rage, and the storm burst
rison. New York: Macmillan & Co.
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gloomy cloud or flashing bolt, or with sheet and satisfying an exposition of this somewhat
lightning, or should heaven's azure gleam and abstruse subject. Especially helpful is the
tranquil air attune to a like calm the soul of discussion of the much misunderstood Aristo-
man — 't was even at the bidding of Zeus that telian definition of the function of tragedy.
this befel.” In a book that is primarily in- Were we to say aught by way of criticism, it
tended for instruction, such high-flown diction would be that the author, in comparing the
is out of place.
character and spirit of tragedy and comedy re-
Every lover of what the Greek spirit stands spectively, does not point out sharply—though
for will welcome the delightful collection of he implies it-one essential difference between
lectures put in book form by Professor Butcher, them : viz., that comedy may represent per-
under the title of - Some Aspects of the Greek sonalities that are essentially local and ephem-
Genius.” The first of these lectures is on eral, while tragedy creates quod semper quod
• What We Owe to Greece.” “Let us follow ubique, and what is ideal because it is universal.
the argument whithersoever it leads," says “The Story of the Iliad” and “ The Story
Plato ; and this expresses one side of the Greek of the Odyssey ” are skilful condensations of
genius. The love of knowledge, the love of the Homeric poems, written in easy and flow-
rational beauty, and the love of freedom, this ing prose. Unimportant details and episodes
sums up the debt of mankind to the Greek that might be deemed objectionable for the
race. In this trinity we think that Mr. Butcher young are omitted. The colored illustrations
does not give sufficient emphasis to the Greek after Flaxman are extremely well done. Once
love of beauty and ideality. In the second in a while Mr. Church allows himself a strange
lecture the author discusses the Greek idea expression which in a book of this kind might
of the State, especially as set forth by Aris- well be avoided ; as when he says, “ Hector's
totle. Here we find nothing new, but the ex- only child, beautiful, headed as a star," and
position is thoroughly lucid. The most in- - the knees of Ulysses were loosened with
teresting paper of the series is, probably, that fear.” Still, such phrases have the true Ho-
on “ The Melancholy of the Greeks.” By a meric stamp; it is only a question of accom-
judicious selection and interpretation of pas-modation to the needs of the youthful reader.
sages from the Greek writers, more particu- | Whether the solemn “thou” and “thee” is
Tarly from the lyric poets and the later Anthol most suitable to this kind of a paraphrase may
ogy, Mr. Butcher makes out a strong case be questioned. But the boys and girls of this
for his thesis, that the quick-witted and light- generation ought to be very grateful for such
hearted Greeks, whose life it is generally sup- an attractive introduction to the great epics of
posed was one long day of cloudless sunshine, Greece.
had a peculiar vein of constitutional sadness Professor Campbell's Guide to Greek Trag-
in their temperament. It is as interesting as edy” is a useful book. It discusses, in a man-
it is true to observe that the mood of merri- ner generally free from unnecessary technical-
ment and the mood of sadness both spring out | ities, Greek tragedy on its literary and artistic
of unlimited aspiration — out of a deep thirst side, and gives the main results of recent study
and capacity for joy. In the address on “ The on the antiquities of the Greek stage as con-
Written and the Spoken Word,” Mr. Butcher,tained in such works as Haigh’s “ Attic The-
it seems to us, has decidedly overstated the atre" and Müller's “ Bühnenalterthümer."
supposed repugnance of the Greeks to the use The chapter entitled “ Characterization," brief
of written characters as the symbols of thought. though it is, shows remarkable insight, and
One of the most suggestive of the series of lec presents a keen analysis of the motives of an-
tures is that on “ The Unity of Learning.” Incient tragedy. In the general plan of the work
these days when learning “is broken up into there is a little lack of coherence and sequence.
small change," and excessive specialization is Chapter III., on the “ Origin and Growth of
undermining the character of our higher insti. Tragedy,” should naturally precede the second
tutions of learning, this fine plea for preserv- chapter, which discusses the connection between
ing the true aim and spirit of liberal culture ancient and modern tragedy. Professor ('amp-
ought to be read by every teacher. By far the bell's treatment of the chorus and the lyric
longest and also the most scholarly paper of parts is the least satisfactory portion of his
the volume consists of a discussion on “ Aris- book. On this topic one can get much more
totle's Conception of Fine Art and Poetry." light from such a work as Moulton's "Ancient
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style of this work as a model of good English. versality that make it undying. The work
For a practised writer like Professor Camp is written in an attractive style, bordering
bell, such a sentence as this ought to be impos now and then on diffuseness and familiar-
sible: “ The point is, Whether does the au ity. With this, however, few readers will
thor convince us, or does he not, of the reality be disposed to find fault, since it is so evident
of his persons ?” We wonder what can be | that the writer enjoys her ramble and does it
meant, on page 137, by “the average spectator | all so gracefully: A map and ten illustrations,
glorified,” in distinction from “ the ideal spec- only fairly well executed, give essential aid to
tator,” as the latter phrase is commonly under- | the reader.
MARTIN L. D'OOGE.
stood.
Miss Jane E. Harrison, whose name is fa-
miliar to all students of classical archæology
through her work entitled “ Myths and Monu-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
ments of Ancient Athens," has written a de-
ELSEWHERE in this issue is reviewed a sumptu-
lightful book on “ Introductory Studies in ous volume on - Old Colonial Furniture,” concern-
Greek Art," whose sole object, as she tells us ing all manner of venerable oddities in desks, chairs,
in her Preface, is to set forth as clearly as pos- clocks, and tables. A very modest publication, with
sible that quality of Greek art which is called its own sufficient charm of substance and garnish-
Ideality. In defining and illustrating this qual-
ing, that deals with the early owners of that furni-
ity she summons to her aid Plato, with a just
ture, and portrays the oddities and quaintnesses
perception of the truth that Greek literature is
of New England character as shown in some of the
the best and only sound comment on Greek
externals of public worship, is Alice Morse Earle's
“ The Sabbath in Puritan New England ” (Scrib-
art. Her work is divided into seven chapters,
ner). We see the native fibre and texture of those
three of which are devoted to a discussion of
grim Pilgrims and Puritans, who were wrought out
the relation of Greek to the earlier Egyptian, of rough gnarled English oak and whose hard
Chaldæo-Assyrian, and Phænician art. It is conditions left the grain of the wood exposed,
plainly to be seen that Miss Harrison has been without carving or polishing or veneering. Most
not only a careful student of the best works on of them seem "cut across the burr," and show very
Oriental art, but that by her own observation
curious and intricate twistings of behavior. Who-
she has acquired an independent and sound
ever would feel the solemn chill and bareness of a
sense for art criticism. One of the best fea-
" Lord's day meeting-place” on our New England
coast in the seventeenth and early eighteenth cen-
tures of this discussion is the happy and just
tury, that " timber fort” which grew to be a shin-
way in which the author shows how far the
gled and clapboarded structure “lathed on the in-
Greeks were justified in their claim that their
side and daubed and whitened workmanlike," and
art was autochthonos. Perhaps the most sug later passed into sober building of brick and stone
gestive distinction Miss Harrison makes in like the Old South in Boston, to finally flower in
treating the various types of art is that between that gorgeous and costly New Old South on the
decorative and erpressive art, and the bounds Back Bay; whoever would recall those two "great-
and relations she assigns to each kind. After
est inconveniences” of our forefathers, wolves and
pointing out the processes, types, and forms
Indians, and know why the man takes his seat at
the head of the pew always; whoever would hear
which the Greek borrowed from his predeces-
again the drum, the horn, the conch-shell, the hand-
sors, the development of Greek sculpture is
bell, and note the flag that summoned the people to
rapidly but clearly traced through its four
sit on narrow benches without backs, which after-
chief epochs,— the Archaic, represented by
ward became pews with slamming pew-seats, the
the Metopes of Selinus ; the Bloom, culmi delight of roguish urchins ; whoever would get a
nating in the Parthenon; the “ After-Bloom” glimpse of that primitive aristocracy which made
(as the Germans call it), as seen in the Hermes much of distinctions in the seating of the congre-
of Praxiteles ; and the period of Decadence, as gation ; whoever would shudder at prayers of an
represented by the sculptures of Pergamos.
hour or two, at sermons of two, three, four, and
While no attempt is made to give any system-
even five hours' duration, in an unheated log-house
atic treatise of the history of Greek art, yet no
with the mercury at zero; whoever would set his
teeth on edge with unconscionable psalms set to
one who reads this book can fail to get a con-
tunes that howled and whined like the winter's
nected idea of the unfolding growth of that art
wind on that bleak shore; whoever would gloat
which drew its inspiration from the vision of
over that rarest of rarities, the Bay Psalm Book,
the eternal beauty," and which, as the author worth seven times its weight in gold, whose very
says, has in it a (urtain largeness and uni- | reprint is a bibliographical treasure ; whoever would


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come closer to the plain living and high thinking A NAME less famous than Cotton Mather's, but
of those old New England divines, who ruled the l having a clearer title to be ranked among the Mak-
land in stern righteousness, tempered with a certain | ers of America," is Thomas Hooker, to whose bi-
salt of humor, who were “ soul-ravishing” and “ full ography another volume in the series is devoted.
of antic tastes," and " whistled Greek” and were Mr. George Leon Walker, the biographer, presents
· septemfluous," and would know what sort of lives his subject in the several aspects of Preacher,
they bred in the grave flock they tended, let him Founder, and Democrat. The space allowed in
read this attractive volume. He will find it full as this series affords but scant opportunity for justice
an egg of meat, and will be grateful to its pains to such a man as Hooker. Mr. Walker has ased
taking and judicious author.
well the facilities afforded him, in presenting suc-
cinctly most of the important incidents in Hooker's
Born in 1663, entering Harvard College at the
life. This pioneer in the organization of democracy
age of twelve, Cotton Mather began to preach at
in America must be accorded high rank in the esti-
eighteen, and was settled as a colleague of his
mation of the students of our institutions. A lead-
father before he was twenty. He died in that pas-
ing man in an age of great political and religious
torate forty-five years later. He had been a labo-
movements, it was Hooker's fortune to attract con-
rious and able minister and most voluminous author.
temporaneous attention as a churchman. But as
He left behind him 382 published works, from a
seen from the present era, his great achievements
leaflet to a folio, and a vast accumulation of manu- !
were political, in accomplishing the first successful
script for a commentary on the Bible. He was an
attempt at a separation of church from state, and
influential citizen in all public affairs. In the witch-
in helping to establish the first beginnings of our
craft trials he seems to have opposed the extreme
peculiar representative system. Mr. Walker justly
measures of those in authority. Like most men of
emphasizes Hooker's political services, in learling
his age, he believed in the reality of witchcraft, but
out from Massachusetts the migration which founded
held that the devils could be cast out by prayer and Connecticut upon a more democratic basis, and in
fasting. It is a mooted question among historians
organizing that colony upon principles which have
how far he was responsible for that Salem tragedy.
since come to characterize the whole United States.
Perhaps his own words best measure the degree of
Enough of his early experiences is given to show
his guilt, when he confesses not appearing with
how he was educated into the political and ecclesi-
rigour enough to stop the proceedings of the Judges,
astical views which distinguished his career in the
when the Inextricable Storm from the Invisible
colonies, and the character of his preaching is illus-
Ilorlal assaulted the country.” Mr. Barrett Wen-
trated by excerpts from his homilies, and by a bil-
dell, Cotton Mather's latest biographer, in the “Mak-
liography giving the titles of the numerous discourses
ers of America" series ( Dodd, Mead & Co.), seems
which, both before and after his death, were printed,
not quite sure that all was delusion in that inextri-
principally in England.
rable, or, as perhaps Mather meant to say, inexpli-
cable storm. He associates the strange phenomena MR. BARRETT WENDELL has lately told us that
with those of animal magnetism and hypnotism, New England possesses, as a legacy from its early
and supposes that in the evolution of mankind there settlers, " what the world has never seen before -
may be disused faculties akin to a sixth sense, once devout free-thought.” He could hardly deny, how-
possessed by man in common with the lower ani ever, that what doctors might call sporadic cases of
mals, now rudimentary and dormant in most of us, devout free-thinking have elsewhere and in other
but occasionally reviving into an abnormal activity. days occurred. That is precisely the case with
It is a curious speculation, at all events. As to Pierre Charron, whose “ Treatise on Wisdom,” as
Mather, Mr. Wendell’s verdict is on the whole fa | paraphrased by Myrtilla H. N. Daly, is published
vorable. He thinks him veracious while inaccurate, i by Putnam's Sons. Charron was a devout free-
honest if prejudiced, devout though narrow, ener- thinker in the sixteenth century. His Treatise,
getic and laborious while lacking sound sense and i upon which his fame rests, was published in 1595,
judgment. Convinced of the substantial trust eight years before his death. Trained first as it
worthiness of Mather's copious diaries, he lets him lawyer, then as a priest, becoming an eminent
mainly tell his own story. As we listen, the feel- preacher, the chaplain of Margaret of Valois, the
ing insensibly creeps over us that Boston was a i friend of Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Charron
dreary abode in the days of Cotton Mather, and followed the light within him, believing it divine.
that few of its residents were busier or heavier He reverenced God and his own soul, and recog-
laden than he. How much he was a Maker of | nized the Holy Spirit as still living. His treatise
America, it is hard to say. He certainly helped is orthodox today, but was liberal enough to alarm
to make Boston, and Mr. Wendell is disposed to i his contemporaries. The Jesuits charged its author
believe that the devoutness of the free thought of with atheism, and the Inquisition might have had
New England” is in some degree due to him. We something to say to him if he had not conveniently
may regard Cotton Mather, then, as a sort of in died out of its reach. Buckle fancied him a mod-
direct ancestor or spiritual progenitor of Lyman ern agnostic. It were fairer to style him an undog-
Abbott or Phillips Brooks,
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-- human wisdom. He is not an exact thinker. He mense. We do not underestimate the difficulties of
includes speech among the senses. Though a French a translation in verse, but it is a question whether
man, he is more wise than witty, and is content to any other sort of translation should be attempted.
give you the shirt unruffled. He is not unlike Em Take the scene of Aase's death, for example. In
erson minus his humor and his poetry and his op Mr. Wicksteed's faithful prose it is bald beyond
timism. He valued the quest for truth, hardly endurance. And yet the original of that scene has
expecting to attain it. He was in advance of his a depth, a pathos, a solemnity of beauty, hard to
time in his advocacy of gentle measures in education. match in modern literature. The extracts from
He would form character rather than accumulate Ibsen's poems are also given in prose, yet no prose
stores of learning. A single quotation will suggest can reproduce in the slightest degree their effect.
his quality: “ Wisdom is not only to be acquired But we commend Mr. Wicksteed's lectures for their
by us, but to be enjoyed. Like the bees, who do sympathy and their honest purpose, and for their
not carry away the flowers, but settle upon them emphasis of the neglected fact that Ibsen's real
and draw from them their spirit and virtue, and works -- the works that show him to be a great
nourishing themselves, afterward make good and poet, and that almost put him upon a level with
sweet honey which is all their own, and is no more Björnson — are the satirical dramas in verse to
thyme or sweet marjoram: so must man gather which two of these lectures are devoted.
from books the marrow and spirit, never enthralling
himself to retain the words by heart, and having
Mr. LAURENCE Hutton's “ Literary Landmarks
drawn the good, feed his mind therewith, from his
of Edinburgh ” (Harper) is precisely the handbook
judgment instruct and direct his conscience and
long needed by intelligent pilgrims to Scotia's lit-
opinions, and, in a word, make for himself a work
erary Mecca. No city of its age and size in the
wholly his own — that is to say, an honest man, wise
world is so rich in this class of local associations as
and resolute." That is good sense, and practical,
Edinburgh — a fact heretofore, in the absence of a
thoughtful wisdom. It is not remarkable today,
compact satisfactory manual like the present one,
but in the sixteenth century in France it had its
rather aggravating than otherwise to tourists vaguely
rarity. There may be room for such sense and
aware of the surrounding riches, yet lacking the
wisdom in these latter days.
means of getting at them. Mr. Hutton's book, the
fruit of actual observation, as well as of patient re-
Dante, Goethe, and Ibsen are the respective sub-
search in biographies and local histories, is a thor-
jects of three volumes of the - Dilettante Library”
ough and very readable guide to the hallowed nooks
(Macmillan ). The first two are revised reprints
and corners of both ends of the town. It is brim-
of Mr. Oscar Browning's - Encyclopædia Britan-
ful of sprightly comment and anecdote touching
nica " articles ; the third is a series of four lectures
Edina's literary worthies – Burns, Drummond, Bos-
by Mr. Philip H. Wicksteed. The Dante volume
well, Hume, Smollett, Campbell, Brougham, etc.,-
is carelessly printed. We are told of Dante's
and its beauty and usefulness are enhanced by a
father that he married Lapi di Chiarissimo Cia-
number of capital illustrations comprising portraits,
lufti, and after his death a certain Madonna Bella.”
and views of the literary shrines described in the
We also read, with undue parsimony of punctuation,
text. The volume forms a worthy companion to
that Lord Vernon's Dante is a reprint of the editions
the author's familiar - Literary Landmarks of
of Jesi Foligno, Mantua and Naples.” Further-
London.”
more, Mr. Browning is of those who write “ Vergil”. “The Fine Arts” (University Extension Manu-
for · Virgil," for which we would quarrel with him | als: Scribner), by G. Baldwin Brown, Professor of
were it worth our while. The “Goethe" is a com Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh, is a brief
pact, matter-of-fact essay, with which we have no and refreshingly rational presentation of some of the
particular fault to find. It makes a good encyclo more important facts and principles of artistic pro-
pædia article, and a tolerable book. Of Mr. Wick duction which should be familiar alike to the histor-
steed's lectures on Ibsen, one is devoted to the po- | ical student of art and to the practical worker.
ems, one to the social plays, and one each to - Brand" While the book is neither a technical manual nor a
and -- Peer Gynt.” Of Ibsen as a writer of social narrative art-history, the author's aim is a practical
plays, it is justly said : “ He even leaves me in one, — the stimulating of the reader's interest in
doubt whether he is not profoundly mistaken in his the more purely artistic, as contradistinguished from
teaching; but he works out some aspects of the the narrative or the ethical, elements in works of
problem with a piercing insight and a relentless art. The attainment of this point of view,- the
truth for which I have no words but those of grate normal one with the Latin laces,- is a difficult
ful admiration." The analyses of Ibsen's two great | matter to the Anglo-Saxon temper, ever inveterately
works give the English reader an excellent idea of bent on appreciating a painting as it appreciates a
their purpose, a fair idea of their strength, and a novel or a sermon; in other words, of persistently
faint idea of their beauty. There are many trans ignoring precisely those qualities which elevate the
lated passages, and the commentary is largely a painter as painter above the dauber, and the sculp-
paraphrase of the original. But Mr. Wicksteed's tor as sculptor above the stone-mason. As Mr.
translations are all in prose, and the loss is im- ' Whistler once put it, " the vast majority of English


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folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a pic- with an index and with full references in the text
ture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to the original works, of Mr. Ruskin's more direct
to tell,” — a sufficiently exasperating consideration art-dicta. The book is handsomely and correctly
to men whose lives have been spent in attaining an printed.
exquisite manipulative skillfar rarer than any !
knack of selecting subjects or expressing sentiment. !
i Ix opening his Introduction to the pretty volume
Mr. Whistler might have added to the remark
containing - The Dramatic Essays of Charles
quoted, that English folk are chargeable, moreover,
Lamb" (Dould's - Giunta Series ") Mr. Brander
with an undue share of a ranker sort of Philistin-
Matthews observes: - Americans take a peculiar
ism: a prudery, necessarily rooted in impure fan-
delight in the humor of Charles Lamb, for he is
cies, that peeps blushingly through its fingers at
one of the foremost of American humorists. On
vases and marbles which to cultured pure-minded
the roll which is headed by Benjamin Franklin,
men and women represent the glories of the graphic
and on which the latest signatures were made by
and the plastic arts. As an aid to the prelim-
• Mark Twain' and Mr. Bret Harte [one hopes, by
inary disentangling of the æsthetic from the lit-
the way, Mr. Matthews will get a Rowland or two
erary and moral standards -- the first step in the
for his Oliver] no name shines more brightly than
Lamb's." The latter assurance must be extremely
direction of intelligent art criticism,- we can point
to no clearer or saner book than this of Professor
soothing to the spirit of Elia --- vexed, no doubt, by
Brown's. Compactness considered, the author has
the question of precedence; but we rather suspect
Mr. Matthews of indulging in a sly bit of Ameri-
given us a remarkably exhaustive treatise ; and we
may take occasion to refer the reader to Professor
can humor" himself when he enrolls Charles Lanıb
Knight's “ Philosophy of the Beautiful,” in the
---the rarest, most delicate of humorists, the re-
same series, as a suitable complemental volume.
verer of antiquity, the intellectual contemporary
and compeer of Burton, of Marvell, of Quarles, the
To most standard systems of philosophy, hand-
unique spirit whose "admirers,” says De Quincey,
books or summaries have been written with a view
“must always of necessity be a select few"--with
of clearing up their difficulties and emphasizing
“ Mark Twain," "Artemus Ward,” “ Josh Billings,"
their leading principles; and what other disciples
et id genus omne, on the ground that his humor
have done for other masters, Mr. W. A. Colling often takes the form (as all humor does ) of exag-
wood seeks, in a comely 16mo of 360 odd pages, geration and of poking fun at the solemnities of
entitled - The Art Teaching of John Ruskin”.
the commonplace. One might almost as well argue
(Putnam's - Student Series”), to do for the author / that Lamb was a Bedouin because he was constantly
of - Modern Painters.” Even admitting the as changing his lodgings. It was only when under
sumption that Mr. Ruskin's eloquent and inspiring
the baleful sway of the kindly production of the
if sometimes rather mystical and incoherent utter-
juniper berry” that Charles Lamb — to the sorrow
ances about and around art are properly to be re-
of his friends -- was guilty of irreverence and buf-
garded as a philosophical system, there is surely no
foonery. For the rest, Mr. Matthews's Introduc-
system which loses more in the process of trimming
tion is a fairly complete and interesting account of
away and abstracting. To offer us the “ Modern Lamb's connection with the theatre, interspersed
Painters" and the rest, stripped of their delightful with comment on his merits and shortcomings as a
redundancies, their poetry, their word-painting, their playwright. The most of the selections in the vol-
fine rhapsodies on the religious and moral aspects
ume are taken from the familiar “ Essays" and
and uses of art, is to offer us the stem stripped of
“ Last Essays” of Elia ; to these are added five
its fruit and leaface. One remembers, too. that papers from the volume collected by J. E. Babson
Ruskin has himself said: “Much time is wasted by a score of years ago, together with a few fragments
human beings, in general, on establishment of sys-
of dramatic criticism published in the later English
tems. . . . I suspect that system-makers in general
editions of Lamb's works — the whole forming a
are not of much more use, each in his own domain,
collection of desirable unity and completeness.
than, in that of Pomona, the old women who tie
cherries upon sticks, for the more convenient port A new monograph by Dr. Andrew Stephenson,
ableness of the same.” Mr. Ruskin is not a “sys- entitled - Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the
tem-maker” ; probably no considerable author has Roman Republic" (Johns Hopkins Press), presents
oftener been avowedly or impliedly inconsistent with in convenient form the data of the numerous Agra-
himself - he holding, perhaps, with Emerson, that l rian laws proposed and adopted from the earliest
** with consistency a great soul has simply nothing times of the Roman State down to the establish-
to do”; and the attempt to codify him, to show ment of the Empire. These are preceded by a his-
that the "mighty maze" of his writings is “not ! torical sketch of the Roman land system prior to the
without a plan " does not strike us as a felicitous Agrarian movements, briefly illustrating the devel-
one. Allowing, however, for the inherent disad- opment of those conditions of gross inequality in
vantages and possibilities of his main scheme, Mr. landholding which made the plebeians restive and
Collingwood has done his work thoroughly, and has imsatisfied, and led to the repeated attempts of
given us, at least, a compact and handy manual, i their tribunes to secure reform by legislation. The


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pose of future comparison with the more recent
The following pages contain full lists, carefully pre-
Agrarian movements in England and America.”
pared and classified, of the books that are intended for
We may therefore expect the data here collected
publication this Spring by American publishers. Such
to be utilized hereafter by extended comparison with
a list is always interesting and instructive, bringing
contemporary problems.
practically the whole field of operations of a publishing
season into one survey. The present list is rather sur-
MR. H. W. MABIE's “Short Studies in Litera prising in its fulness -- the number of titles being over
ture” (Dodd, Mead & Co), a series of brief papers three hundred, as against five hundred for the very ac-
indicative of the leading lines of the development
tive Fall season of last year. A comparison of the va-
of European literature, its fundamental distinctions
rious categories will show, to a certain extent, the rela-
and vital tendencies, will prove helpful and suggest-
tive activities and prevailing tendencies in the various
departments of literature. It should be noted that new
ive to readers who desire to become in a more seri-
editions, unless in new form or with new matter, are not
ous sense students of literature. The studies are
intended to be included here ; neither does the list in-
interpretative rather than critical, and will serve, clude any books already issued, and received at THE
we should say, to stimulate to that deeper inquiry DIAL office, such being given, instead, in the regular
which broadens the conceptions and brings to view list of “ Books of the Month” in this or previous issues,
those hidden origins and connections an insight into
which is the necessary basis of accurate scholarship.
HISTORY.
Mr. Mabie disclaims for his work the qualities of
The Discovery of America. With some account of Ancient
America and the Spanish Conquest. By John Fiske. Tu
exhaustiveness of discussion and novelty of view;
2 vols. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.00,
the book is rather a collection of hints and sugges | The Story of Columbus. By Edward Eggleston, Illus. D. Ap-
tions for more inquiring readers, and as such it is
pleton & Co.
A Half Century of Conflict. By Francis Parkman. Being
to be commended.
the conclusion of “France and England in North Amer-
ica.” In 2 vols. Little, Brown & Co.
BERDOE's “ Browning Cyclopædia " (Macmillan ) | Bancroft's History of the United States. Edition de Lure,
is the most comprehensive of any of the numerous
in 6 vols., with portrait. D. Appleton & Co. $.741,00).
Four Hundred Years of American History. By Prof. J. II.
books that have been published for the elucidation Patton. Being a new and enlarged edition, in two vols.,
of the poems of Robert Browning. In purpose it
of “The Concise History of the American People,"
is similar to Cooke's “ Browning Guide-Book," but
brought down to date. Fords, Howard & Hulbert. $j.
| The Colonial Period. By Prof. George P. Fisher. “Ameri-
larger; and Dr. Berdoe includes interpretations of can History Series." Chas. Scribner's Sons.
the poems, which Mr. Cooke did not. Thus the
| The Episodes of Massachusetts History. By Charles Francis
Cyclopædia may be described as Cooke's Guide-
Adams. In ? vols. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
The Quakers in Pennsylvania, 1682. 1776. By A. C. Apple-
Book and Mrs. Orr's Handbook rolled into one, garth. Johns Hopkins Press.
with the advantages in favor of the new book that
| Witcheraft in Salem Village in 1692. Together with some
account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England
it has fewer inaccuracies than Mr. Cooke's and
and elsewhere. By Winfield S. Nevins. Illus. Lee &
more insight and scholarship than Mrs. Orr's. Dr. Shepard. $1.25.
Berdoe has been a frequent contributor to the
The Kansas Conflict. By Ex-Gov. Charles Robinson. Harper
& Bros.
“papers” of the London Browning Society during | Story of the Nations Series : The Story of the Byzantine Em-
its ten years of existence, a faithful attendant upon
pire, by (.W.C. Oman; The Story of Sicily, by Prof. E,
A. Freeman, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Per vol., $1.).
its meetings, a leader in its discussions, besides A History of Greece. By Evelyn Abbott, M.A. Part II.,
writing two earlier books relating to Browning's Ionian Revolt to the Thirty lears' Peace, 300 45 B. C.
message and mission. Such years of faithfulness
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
The Problems of Greek History. By J. P. Mahaffy. Mae-
and enthusiasm in the study of a master could millan & Co.
hardly fail to produce a book of great value, and
Outlines of Roman History. By Henry F. Pelham. G. P.
Putnam's Sons.
the Cyclopædia will probably long retain the first A Student's History of England, from the earliest times to
place into which it steps at once.
1885. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. Illus. Long-
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Secret Service under Pitt. By W. J. Fitzpatrick, F.S.A.
F. MARY Wilson's Primer on Browning” (Mac-
Longmans, Green & Co.
millan ) is a very good book, but one that seems not
ARCHÆOLOGY.
to be greatly needed, since Arthur Symons's valu-
Hand-Book of Greek Archæology. By A. S. Murray. Mus.
able - Introduction to Browning” had already cov Chas. Scribner's Sons.
ered the same field, and, in the main, quite as well | The Customs and Monuments of Prehistorie Peoples. By
the Marquis de Nadaillac. Translated by Mrs. A. Bell
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ing's method was dess it fearlessly. certain the
Vol. XII. APRIL, 1892. No. 144. for telling the truth. The ethical code of his-
torical writing has happily changed since Irv-
ing's “ Life of Columbus " appeared in 1828.
(ONTENTS.
The purpose of the modern historian is by
careful study and research to ascertain the
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. W. F. Poole ... +21
truth and to express it fearlessly. Mr. Irv-
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne ... 423 ing's method was different. In his researches
TWO GREAT DECADES OF GERMAN HISTORY. in the Spanish archives he found much which
Charles H. Cooper ........... 128 might be the basis of unfavorable criticism of
SOME NOTABLE BOOKS OF TRAVEL. Edward Columbus, but he would not use it, nor be in-
Gilpin Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:30
fluenced by it. His purpose was to make of
BERNHARD TEN BRINK. George Hempi ... 4:34
Columbus a first-class hero. He said: “There
is a certain meddlesome spirit which, in the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS ..........
garb of learned criticism, goes prying about the
Stephens's The Story of Portugal. -- Froude's The Di-
vorce of Catharine of Aragon.-Conway's The Dawn
traces of history, casting down its monuments,
of Art in the Ancient World.--Praeger's Wagner as marring and mutilating its fairest trophies.
I Knew Him.-- Bourne's Sir Philip Sidney.-- Pierce
Care should be taken to vindicate great names
Egan's The Life of an Actor.-Collins's The Study of
English Literature.-- Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader.
from such pernicious erudition.” Mr. Prescott,
- Mrs. Piozzi's Glimpses of Italian Society in the while sharing something of the spirit of Irving,
Eighteenth Century.-- Miss Kirkland's A Short His-
tory of England for Young People.--Long's Transla-
was, says Dr. Winsor, “ far more independent
tion of the Discourses of Epictetus.
in his views of individual character, and the
TOPICS IN APRIL PERIODICALS ...... 4:39
reader is not wholly blinded to the unwhole-
some deceit and overweening selfishness of Co-
BOOKS OF THE MONTH ...440
lumbus." A number of French Catholics have
in recent years written lives of Columbus, show-
ing that he had all the virtues of a saint, and
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
recommending him to the Roman Church for
It is only recently that the real facts con canonization. “ Columbus had no defect of
cerning Christopher Columbus have been pre. character and no worldly quality,” said Roselly
sented to the public; and Dr. Winsor's at- de Lorgues, the ablest of these writers.
tractive work embodies the latest and most That Columbus abandoned his wife and
authoritative conclusions on the subject which children in Portugal is shown by a letter he
the best European and American research and wrote in 1500; and, without the formality
scholarship have reached. The life and per- | of a divorce or marriage, he lived in Spain
sonal character of Columbus do not appear in with another woman, by whom he had his
Dr. Winsor's book in that glowing haze of son Ferdinand. Irving and other biographers
eulogy which Mr. Irving, Mr. Prescott, and state that the occasion of his leaving Portugal
even Humboldt,--to say nothing of the French was the death of his wife ; but the authority
canonizers,— threw around the name of one they use is not to be weighed against Colum-
who had been so great a contributor to cosmo bus's own statement. If his wife were de-
graphical science, and so great a benefactor of ceased, his illicit relations with the Spanish
his race. Much that is here plainly stated woman were unnecessary and inexcusable.
has not been unknown to historical investiga That he did not regard her as his wife ap-
tors in this field ; but when they wrote they pears : (1) He holding the high position of
withheld criticism, and extolled Columbus for admiral and Viceroy of the Indias, she never
virtues he did not possess. To the public, there appeared in public as his wife, nor by his side
fore, Dr. Winsor's conclusions will be in many | on state occasions. (2) He brought his legal
instances a regret and disappointment,— espe son, Diego, born in Portugal, to Spain, and
cially as the work appears on this quadri-cen in his will made him heir to all his honors
tennial year when the name of Columbus is on and estates, thereby disinheriting his natural
so many lips.
son Ferdinand, although his especial favorite.
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Beatrix Enriquez, the mother of Ferdinand, writing long letters of news and gossip; and
“ as a person to whom I am under great obli in five that are still extant there is no mention
gations; and let this be done for the discharge of the sickness and death of Columbus. Four
of my conscience, for it weighs heavy on my weeks later an official document had the brief
soul--the reasons for which I am not permitted mention that “The Admiral is dead.” Two
to give.” Her son Ferdinand, if he was the Italian authors, making, one and two years
author of the life of Columbus generally at later, some corrections pertaining to his early
tributed to him, made no mention of the mar voyages, had not heard of his death. Amer-
riage of his mother; and yet he was careful icus Vespucius and his “ Mundus Novus"
to record the legal marriage of Columbus in (meaning the northern part of South America),
Portugal.
and the glowing descriptions he had written of
It had been well for the reputation of Co the country—its vegetation, animals, birds of
lumbus if he had died in 1493, when he re beautiful plumage, and the southern constella-
turned from his first voyage. He had found tions, --- so unlike the boastful and inconse-
a pathway to a land beyond the Western quential letters of Columbus, had at this time
Ocean ; and although he had no conception of awakened the interest and captured the imagi-
what he had discovered, it was the most im nation of Europe. Hence it was natural that
portant event in the history of the fifteenth the name “ America,” which the scholars in
century. There was nothing left for him to the little French town of St. Dié suggested
do to increase his renown. A coat-of-arms for the “ Mundus Novus" of Americus Ves-
had been assigned him, and he rode on horse pucius, and which Walter Waldseemüller first
back through the streets of Barcelona with the printed in 1507 in his “ Cosmographiæ Intro-
King on one side of him and Prince Juan onductio," should be generally adopted. When,
the other. His enormous claims for honors in 1513, it was found that it was not Asia
and emoluments had been granted. His first and adjacent islands which had been reached
letter, of February, 1493, printed in several by sailing westward, but, in fact, a new world,
languages, had been read in the courts of Eu | it was easy to apply the name “ America ” to
rope with wonder and amazement. “What | the whole continent. If Columbus had died
delicious food for an ingenious mind!” wrote in 1493, the continent would doubtless have
Peter Martyr. In England it was termed “ a been named for him. Beyond stating the fact
thing more divine than human." No other that he found land by sailing westward, the
man ever rose to such a pinnacle of fame so writings of Columbus have little value. Dr.
suddenly; and no other man from such a Winsor says : “ He has left us a mass of jum-
height ever dropped out of sight so quickly. bled thoughts and experiences which perplex
His three later voyages were miserable fail the historian.” Harrisse, the best European
ures, a pitiful record of misfortunes, blunders, | investigator on the subject, states that Colum-
cruelties, moral delinquencies, quarrels, and bus in his time acquired such a reputation for
impotent complainings. They added nothing prolixity that it was a subject of comment by
to the fund of human knowledge, or to his the court-fool of Charles V.
own. On the fourth voyage he was groping Of the alleged portraits of Columbus, none
about to find the river Ganges, the great have any claim to authenticity. There is no
Khan of China, and the earthly paradise. | evidence that they were the result of a sitting,
His two subsequent years of disappointment or even of an acquaintance. Dr. Winsor gives
and sickness and poverty were wretchedness facsimiles of seven, which have little or no re-
personified. Other and more competent men semblance to each other. It cannot be shown
took up the work of discovery, and in thirteen that any of them were taken in his lifetime,
years after the finding of a western route to except the figure of St. Christopher, in colors,
India had been announced, the name and per on the mappemonde of his pilot, Juan de la
sonality of Columbus had almost passed from Cosa, made in 1500. It is supposed—but there
the memory of men. He died at Valladolid, is no proof for the assertion—that, in the lin-
May 20, 1506; and outside of a small circle eaments of the Saint, La Cosa depicted the
of relatives, his body was committed to the features of his Admiral.
earth with as little notice and ceremony as that Ferdinand and Isabella have been the sub-
of an unknown beggar on its way to the pot- jects of much eulogy. Isabella societies have
ter's field. Yet the Spanish court was in the been organized recently by American ladies,
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perpetuate the virtues of the Queen. Dr. this happy blunder was one endowed with high
Winsor thus speaks of them : “ These Spanish intellectual and moral qualities ; but it does
monarchs were more ready at perfidy and de- show that eccentric and reckless persons, when
ceit than even an allowance for the teaching their moderate capacities are supplemented with
of their time would permit, ... and the good luck, often become highly useful members
Queen was more culpable in these respects
of the human family. W. F. POOLE. :
than the King. . . . She was an unlovely
woman at the best, and an obstructor of Chris-
tian charity.”
RECENT FICTION.*
The learning of Columbus has been greatly
overrated. It is evidence of the narrow range
It is clear that the first place in our list of
of his familiarity with the ancient classics that
fiction for this month belongs to “ The History
he did not use the story of Atlantis sunk in
of David Grieve." And it is equally clear that
the ocean opposite the Pillars of Hercules, so
the author of “ Robert Elsmere ” will not go
pleasantly told by Plato in his “ Timæas” and
down in literary history as a woman of one
- Critias," or of the land of Meropes cited by
book, for the new novel is quite as remarkable
Elian, or the great Saturnian continent lying
a work as its predecessor. For the second time
five days west of Britain, which Plutarch made
in the century we must assign to a woman the
a story of in his “ Morals.” It is not certain
highest place among the English novelists of
that he knew anything of the ancient voyages
her day; for Mrs. Ward's superiority to any
of the Phænicians, Carthaginians, and Romans.
other English novelist now living is quite as
He had seen Marco Polo's travels, but Hum-
evident as was the similar superiority of George
boldt could find no evidence that he had read
Eliot from the year onward that mourned the
it, and did not understand why Irving should
death of Thackeray and hailed the appearance
state that he took the book with him on his
of “ Romola.” The comparison with George
first voyage. The explanation is easy : Irving
Eliot is inevitable, and almost too obvious to
saw that he ought to have taken it, as he was * THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE. By Mrs. Humphry
going on a voyage to find Asia, Cathay, and Ward. New York: Macmillan & Co.
the Cipango which Marco Polo had described.
Tess OF THE D'URBERVILLES. A Pure Woman Faith-
fully Presented. By Thomas Hardy. New York: Harper
Columbus did believe that the earth was a
& Brothers.
sphere, and that by sailing west he could reach Vain FORTUNE. By George Moore. New York: Charles
Asia. This was a common belief long before Scribner's Sons.
A First FAMILY OF TASAJARA, By Bret Harte. Boston:
Columbus sailed ; but nobody had the courage
Houghton, Miffin & Co.
or foolhardiness to attempt the voyage. Tos IN THE “STRANGER PEOPLE'S” COUNTRY. By Charles
canelli, an aged Florentine physician, had such Egbert Craddock. New York: Harper & Brothers.
a theory, and furnished it in 1474 to Colum-
Miss Bagg's SECRETARY. A West Point Romance. By
Clara Louise Burnham. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
bus, who had asked for it, together with a map
COLUMBUS AND BEATRIZ. By Constance Goddard Du Bois.
of the western ocean and Asia beyond, as he
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
conceived them to be. A “ crank" who had the THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS. By George Meredith. Boston:
requisite qualities was needed to test the the Roberts Brothers.
ory, and he was found in Columbus. The idea
MELINCOURT. By Thomas Love Peacock. Two volumes.
London : J. M. Dent & Co.
of a new world never entered his brain before
NIGHTMARE ABBEY. By Thomas Love Peacock. London:
he sailed, nor even after he had made his four J. M. Dent & Co.
voyages. He went to his grave without a con TALES OF MYSTERY. Edited by George Saintsbury. New
York: Macmillan & Co.
ception or suspicion that he had visited a new
"GROUND ARMS!” The Story of a Life. By Bertha Von
continent. If he had known where Asia was, Suttner. Translated from the German, by Alice Asbury Ab-
he would have stayed at home. His blunder bott. Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
in geography would have been fatal to him
ELINE VERE. Translated from the Dutch of Louis Cou-
perus, by J. T. Grein. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
if an unknown continent had not intervened.
The PRINCESS TARAKANOVA. A Dark Chapter of Russian
The discovery of a new world, which resulted History Translated from the Russian of G. P. Danilevski,
from this error, was a most fortunate accident.
by Ida de Mouchanoff. New York: Macmillan & Co.
It was the outcome of an innate and blind
THE DELUGE. An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden,
and Russia. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the
audacity in taking unknown risks and perils, | Polish, by Jeremiah Curtin. Two volumes. Boston: Little,
rather than of premeditation, scientific insight, Brown & Co.
and ratiocination. It does not follow, however,
THE PRINCESS OF CLÈVES. By Madame de La Fayette.
Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. Two volumes. Bug-
that the person who took these risks and made 1 ton: Little, Brown & Co.


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be worth making. Both find their best inspi | The “ pure woman ” whom Mr. Hardy has
ration in the middle-class life of their own faithfully presented ” in “ Tess of the D'Ur-
country, although Mrs. Ward can at need bervilles” is a country girl who is first be-
make nineteenth century Paris seem as real to | trayed by a cad, who next marries a man with-
us as fourteenth century Florence seems in the out telling him of her past history, who is de-
great tour de force of the woman whose man serted by him when he finds out about it, who
tle she wears. A culture of the broader sort then meets again and this time marries her
that rarely lends its resources to the art of fic betrayer — the cad having meanwhile turned
tion is back of the works of both women, and pietist, who last, the first husband repenting
both write with an ethical fervor that some and returning to claim her, kills the second,
times comes dangerously near to overstepping and who is duly hanged for the murder. This
the limits of true art. There are some to whom is, in outline, the story of Mr. Hardy's latest
any suggestion of didacticism is a stumbling heroine, and it is no slight tribute to the nov-
block; but we are content to admit of its em elist's art that he can succeed—as to a certain
ployment when not so obtrusive as to obscure extent he does — in attaching our sympathies
the artistic presentation of a theme. Indeed, to such a character, or arousing our interest in
to rule otherwise would be to exclude from so preposterous a sequence of events. Is it
consideration a large share of the noblest lit only our fancy that detects in this work cer-
erature of the world, from Æschylus to Hugo, tain echoes of Ibsen — an echo of “ Brand”
-- which the doctrinaires of criticism may do, in the votary of pleasure turned pietist, and of
if they please, and welcome. Mrs. Ward's “Gengangere ” in the square presentation of
ethical ideal of character is so presented as to the problem as to whether the fallen woman is
touch the imagination and reach the emotions: a greater sinner than the fallen man? The
more than this we do not ask. The new novel manner of this book is, of course, the manner
has a greater variety of characters than fill of realism, and the method that of photog.
the canvas of “Robert Elsmere," and they are, raphy. As a memorable example—"a good jest
without exception, distinct, vivid, and self-con forever"-of what this method can persuade a
sistent. They are also strikingly real, with writer to do, let us quote a single sentence :
two or three possible exceptions ; it is hard to “She did not observe that a tear came out
believe in the utter lack of humane feeling dis- upon his cheek, descending slowly, so large
played by Aunt Hannah and Purcell, or in the that it magnified the pores of the skin over
unrelieved depravity of Louie. In the latter which it rolled, like the object-lens of a micro-
case, we should think that the author had scope.” The reason why “she” did not ob-
pushed a theory a little too far; the principle serve all this is very evident: she was only a
of heredity might have been adequately illus peasant girl, not a realistic novelist. The lat-
trated without bestowing upon the girl so very ter is the only kind of person who ever does
evil a disposition, especially as the character observe such things.
of her brother takes a development so differ “ Vain Fortune” is the story of a young
ent. On the other hand, most of the charac dramatist suddenly made wealthy by inherit-
ters are distinct triumphs; that of David, to ance. He is a poor creature, and the play
begin with, and equally so that of Elise, who which he is struggling to write appears to be
makes so brief an appearance, and whose influ a poor enough sort of production. The moral
ence is so nearly fatal to our hero. As for the of the story seems to be that the possession of
child — David's Sandy,- even the pages of riches does not make one a better man-of-letters.
George Eliot have no more adorable infant There are two women in the book, one of whom
creation. One character from actual history loves the dramatist desperately, and commits
that of Henri Regnault--appears in the story, suicide because her affection is unrequited.
and the relatively insignificant episode in which Whether the other loves him as desperately
he figures makes one of the most lasting im we are unable to determine, for the simple
pressions of the book. We should say, on the reason that he marries her. It is a tedious
whole, that the novel is too long, especially in story, although a short one.
the earlier stages, and that its interest is scat It is always the unexpected that happens.
tered among rather too many persons and However we may doubt the truth of this say-
things. But for all that, it must be called a ing in its application to real life, there can be
great novel, one of the greatest of our gen-no question about its being accurately descrip-
eration.
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know perfectly well, when we open his kalei- certainly been told from a novel standpoint by
doscopic pages, that anybody in the book may Miss Du Bois. The relations between the navi-
become anybody else, in character and in gator and his second wife provide the frame-
name, without a moment's warning. The trans work of Columbus and Beatriz," and about
formations in “ A First Family of Tasajara” this framework there is built a structure that
are possibly a littie more startling than usual, includes the main incidents in the life of Colum-
but we recognize them as of a kind long fa bus—the years of hope deferred, the voyages,
miliar. What does consistency matter, after and the pathetic end of a great career. One
all, if we take up a story for the purpose of purpose of the writer has been to rehabilitate
getting interested in it, and if it answers the the memory of Beatriz Enriquez,—for some of
purpose unfailingly? In this latest book of the popular histories have assumed, upon very
his we have only the old types, but they are imperfect evidence, that her relation to the
fantastically draped anew, and the soul still discoverer of America was an illicit one. This
delights in the contemplation of them.
suggestion is in no way countenanced by the
Miss Murfree finds enough variety in the present writer, who represents the relation be-
Tennessee mountaineers to justify her in writ. tween the two as not only legitimate, but also
ing about them as frequently as she does. The as singularly noble and beautiful, the separa-
resemblances between them are generic rather tion of their later years being explained as the
than specific, and each new story presents us consequence of a vow made by Columbus in
with some really new types. “ In the Stranger presence of the perils of the first return voy-
People's' Country” takes its singular title age. The Columbus that Miss Du Bois pre-
from a race of prehistoric dwarfs whose burial sents to us is perhaps a little too much of the
places are found in the region described, and traditional hero and even saint, but the con-
no inconsiderable part of the plot is based ception is admirably consistent, and not the
upon the efforts of an enthusiastic archæologist less forcible for its simplicity. The work
to uncover some of their mounds in the inter is an exquisite piece of historical romance,
ests of science. Of the accuracy of Miss Mur and its closing chapters in particular deserve
free's character-drawing and dialect transcrip high praise for their proportion, form, and
tion, we can only say that it is self-consistent pathos.
and seems natural enough. Of her skill in “ The Tragic Comedians” is one of the more
the construction of an interesting story, with readable of Mr. Meredith's novels, and addi-
genuine human interests at play, we can speak tional interest is given to the new edition of
with more confidence. And to her poetic hand the book by Mr. Clement Shorter's introduc-
ling of the background of hill and sky, whose tory sketch of the private life of Lassalle. For
presence she never allows us to forget, we can the novel is but a thinly disguised version of
accord the highest praise. To her, and to her the actual romance of Lassalle's stormy career,
readers, nature and man are parts of one whole; both the great socialist and the woman who
each reflects the moods of the other; each is was the indirect cause of his untimely death
the other's best interpreter. This power to being presented with considerable fidelity to
spiritualize the aspects of nature is of the historical fact. In the volcanic passion of this
rarest, and in its possession and exercise the famous love episode Mr. Meredith found a
author has few equals.
theme appealing peculiarly to his sympathies,
- Miss Bagg's Secretary” is described as “a and the novel has a directness and a force un-
West Point romance,” although we are mid-, common elsewhere in his work. Vagaries of
way in the story before the scene is transferred expression there doubtless are, but the book is
to the Military Academy, and the chapters not, like most of its fellows, so loaded down
that relate to the cadets and their doings are with eccentricities and mannerisms as to tax
the least interesting of all. The book is a sim the patience of the most enduring
ple love story, pleasantly enough told, and pro | The issue of Peacock's novels, alluded to in
vided with a manly hero and a bright and our last article on the subject of Fiction, has
winning heroine. It abounds in trivial inci- been going on, the volume containing - Hlead-
dents and descriptions, and does not deeply long Hall” having been followed by the two
stir any emotion, but keeps the reader in a volumes of - Melincourt" and the single vol-
cheerful mood, and helps him to pass an idle ume of “Nightmare Abbey." We do not quite
hour agreeably if not profitably.
agree with Mr. Garnett's deprecatory estimate
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notable as Peacock's other tales. It is not, of popular by “ The Castle of Otranto" and its
course, a novel in the ordinary sense, but it successors,
has the Peacockian qualities of fantasticalness The most important English novel of the
and whimsicality in a development quite as season is the work of a woman, and a woman
amusing as in any of the other stories. And has written one of the most important novels
it offers upon every page the delight that is offered us in translated form. “ Die Waffen
afforded by careful, almost classical, English Nieder!” by the Baroness von Suttner, has
style. This being the case, we do not find it created a profound impression in Germany,
too long, especially when we consider the vari and Mrs. Abbott's translation, happily entitled
ety of types or “humors ” which it presents, “ Ground Arms!” places in the hands of En-
the keenness of its satirical shafts, and its deep glish readers a work that deserves to be very
underlying current of sympathy for whatever widely read. It is frankly a novel of tendency,
is worthy and of good report. The central fig. and pleads, with an eloquence that has rarely
ure of Sir Oran Haut-Ton, who plays the flute been given to the subject, for the disarmament
and French horn, and who is a gentleman in of Europe and the inauguration of a new era
all accomplishments save that of speech, al of peace. It is even more didactic than “ Rob-
though originally an orang-utan from the wilds ert Elsmere,” but its existence is justified by
of Africa, is one of the most original and amus the significance of the subject and the strength
ing conceptions in literature. The only display of the plea. It purports to be the autobiography
of bad taste in the work is its characterization of an Austrian woman of high rank, strongly
of Southey as Feathernest; the treatment of prepossessed by education and social influ-
the poet is harsher than he deserved, although ences in favor of the prevailing military cult,
he was not blameless. Shelley wrote to Pea but whose eyes are finally opened to the true
cock that “ Melincourt " was greatly admired nature of war, and the remainder of whose life
in Pisa, “ and preferred to his other writings.” | is one long protest in word and deed against
Mr. Garnett suggests that the Pisan public thus the military aspect of modern civilization. She
referred to probably consisted of the Gisbornes marries an officer, who falls in the Italian
and Shelley himself, an audience fit, though campaign of 1859. A few years after, she
few indeed. It is the kind of audience that marries another officer, but this time her hus-
Peacock's novels always have had, and are sure band is one who, like herself, sees war in its
of always keeping. “ Nightmare Abbey" has true light, but whose position does not permit
a striking portrait of the author at the age of of his giving up his commission until he has
seventy-two. It is a little more like a story than taken his part in the Schleswig-Holstein cam-
the other works, and is, perhaps, best of them paign of 1864 and in the war of 1866 which
all in point of style. Mr. Garnett remarks brought crushing defeat to Austria at Sadowa.
that “it is rather engraved than written,” | In 1870-71 they are living in Paris, and share
which is a very felicitous way of putting it. the sufferings of the beseiged. The crowning
Coleridge, as Mr. Flosky, is the best known of tragedy of her life occurs on the morning
the real persons satirized in this tale.
when, seized by a frenzied mob, her husband
We step, chronologically, back of Peacock į is charged with being a Prussian spy, and sum-
when we turn to the “ Tales of Mystery” that marily shot. Thus the four great European
Mr. Saintsbury has edited for the “ Pocket Li wars of the past generation are skilfully
brary of English Literature.” The tales are brought within the scope of this story of a life
only fragments of tales, being extracts from of suffering and sacrifice. The hollowness of
the romances of Mrs. Radcliffe and from the phrases current in justification of these
Lewis's - Monk” and Maturin's “ Melmoth." wars, and the hypocrisy of the pleas urged in
These books have nowadays slight chance of their defense, are remorselessly displayed, while
getting read except in extracts, and Mr. Saints- the political complications from which they re-
bury's selection will suffice for all but the most sulted are analyzed with keen insight and an
conscientious students of literature. His in irony from whose effectiveness the note of sup-
troduction is excellent, and it calls our attention pressed indignation does not detract. And the
to the fact that “ Northanger Abbey” is, in a physical horrors of warfare are depicted in a
sense, a parody of Mrs. Radcliffe. We are manner which, from the pen of a woman, is
minded to say in addition that Peacock's more than noteworthy. In the feeling that in-
“ Nightmare Abbey" requires to be read inspires such a work, and that such a work in
the light of this same literature of terror, made / turn arouses, there is at least a faint promise


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of some future happy age when the war-drum and the author's own theory of his heroine is a
shall throb no longer, and every battle-flag be little confused. There is an interesting intro-
furled.
duction by the translator, Madame de Mou-
The first volume of the “ Dutch Fiction chanoff, and the story has several striking il-
Series,” with a general introduction by Mr. lustrations, including etched portraits of the
Gosse, presents us with the “ Eline Vere” of Empress and Count Alexis Orloff, and an
Louis Marie Anne Couperus, a writer still un- etched frontispiece from a famous painting by
der thirty years of age, but already taking a Flavitski, representing the popular legend con-
high rank among Dutch men-of-letters. Cou cerning the death of the princess, which has it
perus belongs to a group of young writers that she was drowned in her dungeon by an
who, as Mr. Gosse remarks, “ exhibit a violent overflow of the Neva.
zeal for literature, passing often into extrava Nearly two years ago, we had the pleasure
gance, who repudiate, sometimes with ferocity, of calling attention to the masterly historical
the rather sleepy Dutch authorship of the last novel, “ With Fire and Sword,” of the Polish
forty years, and who are held together or writer, Henryk Sienkiewicz. The sequel to
crushed together by the weight of antiquated that work, done into English by the same able
taste and indifference to executive merit which translator, Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, and entitled
they experience around them.” There is no - The Deluge," has now been published. The
doubt that Dutch authorship has been sleepy extraordinary length of the former work called
during the last half century, and any signs of for surprised comment, and the sequel in ques-
an awakening are welcome. The gap between tion is half as long again! The two works
past and present was filled to a certain extent may fairly be considered a single novel, for
by the novels of Lennep and Madame Bos the story is continuous, and many of the char-
boom-Toussaint, and the poems and criticisms acters are with us from first to last. We have,
of Vosmaer, but the Dutch literature of the then, altogether, in about two thousand closely
nineteenth century has been anything but bril written pages, twice the matter of “ Tom
liant or fertile." Eline Vere” is distinctly Jones," and considerably more than is con-
modern in feeling, and describes the social life tained in “ War and Peace,” or even in the
of the capital of Holland. It abounds in bright eleven “ Mousquetaire” volumes of Dumas.
if rather trivial descriptions, and in minute de We hope that these figures will not frighten
tails. The characters are numerous, and are readers away from the book. It is true that
all each other's relations. They are, with the life is short, but the shortest life has periods
exception of the heroine, rather commonplace, of enforced idleness, caused by temporary dis-
and mainly serve as foils to the presentation of ablement, or railway and steamship journeys,
her striking personality. Eline herself offers in which such a work is a boon of the most
a study in modern psychology, and the devel- positive sort. For, experto crede, this book is
opment in her of a neurotic condition that ends emphatically of the kind which best fills such
in insanity and suicide is the principal theme gaps in the routine of life ; it is intensely, ab-
of the novel. The story is told at wearisome sorbingly interesting from first to last ; it is
length, but the practised reader will soon learn full of the best kind of fighting and love mak-
to separate the kernel from the husks.
ing, the two permanent elements of all healthy
Gregory Petrovitch Danilevski, who died a romance; it has a great but unfamiliar histor-
year or two ago, was a popular writer of his ical background, and its characters are of the
torical fiction, and it is well that the attention most living in fiction. Indeed, nothing short
of English readers should have been called to of genius could have created the character of
him. The story of “ The Princess Tarakan- Zagloba, most valiant of trenchermen and wine-
ova” is based upon an eighteenth century epi bibbers ; most valiant in battle (when put to
sode in the annals of the Russian court, and it), although greatly preferring stratagem to
its heroine is a mysterious pretender to the open fight, the part of Ulysses to that of Hec-
throne of Catherine II. The facts of her his-tor; most valiant also in encounters of wit and
tory have never been fully cleared up, but the in self-praise. Really, his creator has almost
author has constructed a narrative of thrilling added a new type to literature, has provided
interest out of such of the facts as have come Falstaff with a companion and a foil. Sien-
into his possession, and, we need hardly add, kiewicz is no drawing-room novelist; his theme
to a certain extent out of his own imagination. | is war-semi-barbarous war at that and none
The story is of somewhat incoherent structure, 1 of its grim horrors are spared. He has as


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much realism as Tolstoi, although of a health dans sa vie.” M. Anatole France has written
ier sort; he realizes the historical setting of an appreciative preface for a recent edition of
his romance as fully as does the Russian Madame de La Fayette's famous novel, and this
writer; and he does what the latter does not, is also translated for us by Mr. Perry. Perhaps
he presents us with a variety of characters so the most interesting thing about this preface is
strongly individualized that it is impossible to the included letter from M. Pierre Laffitte, the
forget them. Moreover, he exalts and glori. successor of August Comte as leader of the
fies the emotion of patriotism as few other Positivists. “La Princesse de Clèves," it will
writers have done. In " the deluge” of foreign be remembered, was admitted by Comte into
invasion and civil war that swept over seven the Positivist library, a fact upon which some
teenth century Poland he enlists our sympa- | light is thrown by the following passages from
thies on the side of the Polish patriots — lost M. Lafitte's letter : “ What has always struck
though we now know their cause to have been, me in reading this distinguished product of the
— and commands our tears for the nation's female mind is the complete absence of any-
wounds. Among the historical portraits are thing supernatural. The name of God is not
Yan Kazimir of Poland and Carolus Gustavus once mentioned, and yet the inner workings of
of Sweden, the traitor Radzivill, and the great human life, and more especially of a woman's
Polish leader Charnyetski ; many other names life, is portrayed without any appearance of
of great historical moment appear, but these strangeness or want of logic; and that is so
stand out in sharpest outline and fullest de true that no one before me, so far as I know,
lineation.
has ever noticed this absence of God. . . . It
The publishers of - The Deluge,” by way of is evident that a work of this sort portrays a
making the old join hands with the new, have new state of mental equilibrium attained by a
issued, in a translation by Mr. Thomas Ser woman — it is true by a very superior woman,
geant Perry, the earliest of all novels in the - in whom life is controlled by the apprecia-
modern sense. “ La Princesse de Clèves” was tion of the consequences of our actions, without
published in 1678, long before - Gil Blas,” | thought of any supernatural interference.” In
longer still before the development of the En connection with this publication, the fact is
glish novel by Defoe, Fielding, and Richard worth noting that one of the most attractive
son. It had indeed been preceded by “Astrée" volumes of the “Grands Ecrivains Français"
and “ Clélie,” by “ Cléopâtre ” and “ Polexan- is devoted to Madame de La Fayette. A word
dre," but those ponderous productions, which should be said of the mechanical beauty of this
once caused tears and now awaken only smiles, | publication. The most fastidious taste would
were but the development of the mediæval ro find it difficult to criticise volumes so exquisite
mantic tradition ; they can hardly be taken, as | as these.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
Madame de La Fayette's works fairly may be,
as precursors of the modern novel. In “La
Princesse de Clèves," for the first time in
modern literature, character rather than inci-
Two GREAT DECADES OF GERMAN
IIISTORY.*
dent was made the chief interest of a work of
fiction. The story also offers a striking con-
The fifth volume of Von Sybel's “The Found-
trast, in its brevity, to the interminable ro-
ing of the German Empire” completes a work
mances of the Scudery and Calprenede sort.
that will confirm the reputation of its author
Its scene pretends to be the court of Henry II.,
as probably the first of living historians. To
but it is easy to recognize in its pages the court
mastery of his material, clearness, orderly pro-
of the Grand Monarque, and to identify such
gression, and self control, he adds a real power
actual personages as Madame de Montespan
of description and characterization that makes
and La Rochefoucauld. Its charming simplic-
his work not only valuable for its store of facts
ity of style and its admirable delineation of
and its judicious interpretation of them, but
character have made it a French classic in a
interesting as a narrative of stirring and im-
very high sense. Of its author, Saint-Beuve
portant scenes. There is evidence that state
says: “ A un fonds de tendresse d'âme et im-
documents have been faithfully used, and many
agination romanesque, elle joignit une exacti * THE FOUNDING OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE BY WILLIAM I.
tude naturelle, et, comme le disait sa spiritu-
Based chiefly upon Prussian State Documents. By Heinrich
von Sybel. Translated by M, L. Perrin, Ph.D., assisted by
elle amie, une divine raison qui ne lui fit
Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. Volume V. New York: T. Y. Crow-
jamais faute; elle l'eut dans ses écrits comme l ell & Co.
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important extracts from them are presented; the great purpose of crowding Austria out of
while the skill of the author has fused the ma Germany and undoing the disintegrating work
terial into a smooth and well-ordered account of ages, and carried it through in spite of
that is doubly charming after the undigested Prussian opposition and the open hostility of
masses of facts given us by some writers of the the lesser German States. How they did it,
more recent school.
the strength of the opposition and hostility,
The nature of the period treated is such that and the greatness of the work they accom-
it would be difficult, even for a less skilful plished, Dr. Von Sybel shows us vividly.
writer, to hide its interest. It would be hard Among the other interesting characters set
to find in all history another eighteen years forth are Alexander of Russia, playing his part
more full of dramatic episodes than the period of general mediator and overseer of Europe ;
covered by these five volumes. The revolutions Schwarzenburg, the haughty and determined
in the German States in 1848; the great duel Austrian minister who drove Prussia to her
between Austria and Prussia, whose stake was disgrace at Olmütz ; George V., the blind king
supremacy in Germany; the strife between the of Hanover, the type of the petty sovereigns
old spirit and the new, between tradition and of Germany who clung to the past, worshipped
precedent and mediavalism on one side and Austria, and hated every new thing — most of
modern progress and ideas on the other (and | all the rising spirit of nationality as embodied
never was a spirit more completely embodied | in vigorous Prussia. His fate, as he was
in a nation than each of these was); the reac- driven forth from his kingdom after seeing the
tionary spirit of the petty monarchies, their structure that seemed so strong crumble at a
jealousy of Prussia, their trustful dependence blow and all his hopes shattered, is pathetic as
upon their old leader and ideal, Austria, and well as instructive.
their final rude awakening to the fact that the But no part of the whole work is more ab-
nineteenth century differs widely from the six- sorbing in its interest than that portion of this
teenth ; the final evolution of Italy from a ge- fifth volume that treats of the relations of
ographical expression to a reality as a nation France to Prussia during the final campaign,
filled with an intense national spirit, through and the settlement of Germany and Italy that
the good offices of Napoleon and Bismarck followed it. Here we have a portrait of Napo-
upon the lines before laid down by Cavour; leon as vivid as it is destructive to his reputa-
the passionate jealousy and hostility of France tion as a shrewd and strong ruler. His inde-
as she saw a new power grow up on her east cision, his blustering demands followed by meek
ern border that did not tremble at the frown withdrawals when he found his bluster met by
of Napoleon ; — these topics will suggest some William's and Bismarck's determination to
thing of the interest of the short period cov manage German affairs without his interven-
ered by this work.
tion, his astonishment as he saw his plans care-
We have also many interesting characters lessly set aside by the rude Prussians, the dis-
portrayed. We have the amiable but irreso appearance of his prestige in Europe and his
lute Frederick William IV., whose high-sound- popularity at home as his leadership in western
ing assumption of leadership in Germany Europe was no longer acknowledged and his
ended in the humiliation of Olmütz. We see demands for compensation were quietly ig-
his resolute brother, who as Prince of Prussia nored,- these show but little of the wisdom
tried in vain to strengthen the army as the that the world has attributed to this modern
necessary means to a leading position, or even Sphinx. We see him to have been but a vul-
for maintaining Prussian self-respect before | gar adventurer, not without ability, who sus-
the domineering assumptions of the hereditary tained himself by flattering his people and
leader of Germany. Later he becomes King diligently seeking out and following public
William I., and a new spirit fills the govern- opinion. When his policy of bluster failed and
ment. He calls in Bismarck, and the soldier the national vanity was wounded, his hold on
and the statesman work together, each indis- | France was broken.
pensable to the other, to raise Prussia to the There are other interesting things in this
high position they had marked out for her. final volume, which is given up to the cam-
Whatever may have been their faults then or paign of Königgrätz and the peace negotia-
later, never can the German people praise too tions; but enough has been said to indicate
highly the wisdom, the foresight and insight, our opinion of the work. Germany and the
the boldness and steadfastness, that conceived world have to thank Professor Von Sybel for


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an authoritative account of one of the great peaks of Ecquador, making the volume one of
movements of history. Inasmuch as the author the most entertaining as well as the most im-
himself passed through the stirring scenes portant on our list. The work is the literary
which he describes, we can hardly expect per outcome of an expedition undertaken in 1879–
fect impartiality and coldness of treatment. 80 to Ecquador, primarily with a view to as-
He acknowledges that he writes from a Prus. certaining the physiological effect of low atmos-
sian and National Liberal standpoint. Yet his pheric pressure at great heights, and seconda-
historical insight is so clear, and his opinionsrily for the determination of the altitudes and
are so fortified by documentary evidence, that relative positions of the chief mountains of
we can accept the work in both facts and Ecquador, the comparison of boiling-point ob-
spirit as substantially correct, and enjoy it the servations and of the aneroid against the mer-
more for the warmth that pervades it.
curial barometer, and making collections in the
CHARLES H. COOPER.
fields of botany and zoology at great heights.
Assisted by two European mountain-guides,
Mr. Whymper ascended Mounts Chimborazo,
SOME NOTABLE BOOKS OF TRAVEL.*
Corazon, Cotopaxi, Sincholagua, Antisana,
Cayambe, Sara-urcu, and Carihuairazo, en-
The most noteworthy book of travels issued countering severe hardships and securing sig-
in many months is undoubtedly Mr. Edward nificant scientific data. The care with which
Whymper's “ Travels amongst the Great An- the work has been prepared for the press will
des of the Equator.” Mr. Whymper is an ex especially commend it to critical readers; and
act observer, and an examination of this vol hearty praise must be added for illustrations
ume reveals a perfect storehouse of hard-won | and general mechanical excellence.
facts and careful conclusions that will go far Mr. William Woodville Rockhill's “ The
toward clearing up certain physiological and Land of the Lamas " presents, in terse, unpre-
topographical questions involved. The scien- tentious English, the results obtained during a
tific aim and temper of the book need present journey of several thousand miles through a
no terrors to the imagination of the “ general very imperfectly known portion of the Chinese
reader," __ the spirited way in which the author Empire—the bulk of the volume being devoted
sets forth the humors, dangers, and hardships to hitherto virtually unexplored regions of
of the undertaking, and his graphic descrip- | Tibet. In a considerable part of the country
tions of the magnificent scenery of the famous traversed the author has probably had no Eu-
* TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES OF THE EQUATOR.
ropean predecessor. The book is a real con-
By Edward Whymper. With maps and illustrations. New tribution to the literature of scientific explora-
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
tion, Mr. Rockhill bringing to his task a seri-
THE LAND OF THE LAMAS: Notes of a Journey through
China, Mongolia, and Tibet. By William Woodville Rock-
ousness of purpose and general and special
hill. With Maps and Illustrations. New York: The Cen scholarly attainments that insure the signifi-
tury Company.
cance of the facts he has selected for preser-
ACROSS TIBET. Translated from the French of Gabriel
Bonvalot, by C. B. Pitman. Illustrated. New York: Cas-
vation. We may add that, despite the author's
sell Publishing Company.
modest disclaimer of literary quality, the story
The REAL JAPAN: Studies of Contemporary Japanese of the journey is told in a very agreeable style.
Morals, etc. By Henry Norman. Illustrated. New York:
Tibet has been Mr. Rockhill's life hobby;
Charles Scribner's Sons.
SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. By Theodore Child. Il and in the winter of 1888, having resigned his
lustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers.
post of Secretary of Legation at Pekin, he pro-
SEAS AND LANDS. By Sir Edwin Arnold. Illustrated.
ceeded to carry out his long-cherished project
New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
Indika: The Country and the People of India and Cey-
of exploration, having first acquired a knowl-
lon. By John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D. With Maps and Illus edge of the Chinese and Tibetan tongues. "My
trations. New York: Harper & Brothers.
outfit,” he tells us, “was simple and inexpen-
JERUSALEM, THE HOLY City: Its History and Hope. By
Mrs. Oliphant. Illustrated. New York: Macmillan & Co.
sive, for, dressing and living like a Chinaman,
EQUATORIAL AMERICA: Descriptive of a Visit to St. I was encumbered neither with clothes, nor
Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Capitals of South foreign stores, bedding. tubs. medicines. nor
America. By Maturin M. Ballou. Boston: Houghton, Mif-
Ain & Co.
any of the other endless impedimenta which
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. By Charles Waterton. so many travellers consider absolute neces-
Illustrated. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons.
saries.” Travelling thus in the native fashion
ACROSS Russia, from the Baltic to the Danube. By
and equipped with the native tongue, the author
Charles Augustus Stoddard. Illustrated. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
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the body of the people—a fact manifest in the sided) general account of the Japan of to-day
freshness and variety of his observations. Mr. that we have seen. As the title implies, the
Rockhill's carefully-prepared foot-notes and ap- author has sought to view impartially both
pendices add much to the scholarly tone and sides of the national shield ; and his account
the value of his book, and the publishers have of “ the child of the world's old age ” (as some-
given the whole an extremely attractive and one has cleverly styled Japan), while by no
elegant material setting. There are a number means persistently pessimistic, will prove a
of illustrations, and two maps showing the wholesome corrective to the couleur de rose and
author's course.
verbal confectionery of the class of literary way.
In M. Gabriel Bonvalot's - Across Tibet” farers, who, like Sir Edwin Arnold and Mr.
we have another informing and readable book Percival Lowell, aim rather at literary charm
on this remote region. Like Mr. Rockhill, than accurate impartial presentment. Most
the author entered Tibet from the north ; of the chapters have already appeared, sub-
but his course lay far to the westward of Mr. stantially, in leading English, American, and
Rockhill's, and called for a somewhat formid- French newspapers, and they are for the most
able equipment in the way of arms, munitions, part in the best style of modern high-class
and escort, — the expedition, for a part of the | journalism, - concise, crisp, unglossed presen-
route, resembling a forced march through a tations of first-hand facts. Much significant
hostile country. Thanks to M. Bonvalot's tact, information is given as to Japanese Homes,
coolness, and good humor, open strife and im Newspapers, Justice, Education, Arts and
pending disaster were averted by diplomacy Crafts, Women, Rural Japan, Military and
backed by a judicious show of force. Great Naval Japan, and the volume closes with two
privations and sufferings were undergone dur- thoughtful chapters touching the present polit-
ing the winter months spent on the high lands ical status and the political outlook. Under
of Tibet, the explorers going beyond the limits the heading of “ The Yoshiwara,” Mr. Norman
reached by their English and Russian prede- treats with tact and propriety a delicate subject
cessors, and forcing their way into the country hitherto virtually untouched, giving us a de-
by paths heretofore traversed only by Tibetans tailed account -- based upon thorough investi-
on their way to and from the holy city of gation — of what he not unjustly holds “the
Lhassa. We regret that we cannot, through most remarkable attempt ever made to solve
adequate extracts, give the reader a fair idea the great problem of human society.” Infer-
of the quality of M. Bonvalot's picturesque | ring from Mr. Norman's copious facts, the Jap-
narrative, which is told with true Gallic vi- anese “ solution " seems to us to be grounded
vacity and lightness, and, we may add, with in the principle that where experience indicates
a notable absence of Gallic vanity. The book that a social evil is ineradicable, is rooted in
bears witness throughout to the pluck, mod- conditions alterable only by indefinitely ex-
esty, and good judgment of its author, and tended time, it is the business of society, not to
forms a substantial addition to our geograph- emulate the Mohammedans who fire their mus-
ical and ethnical knowledge of the land of kets at the moon, or Pope Calixtus, who as-
prayer mills, buttered tea, and indescribably sailed Halley's comet with the terrors of bell,
hideous humanity. As to this last point, it is book, and candle, but to regulate the evil,
only fair to add that M. Bon valot-by no means to render it as respectable, as confined, as
an ill-looking man when judged by Occidental harmless, as inconspicuous as possible ; and,
standards — confesses that he was eyed with on the principle that every bad implies a good,
evident disrelish by the Tibetans. So largely to see that this good inures so far as may be
does beauty dwell in the eye of the observer. to the benefit of the victims rather than to that
The volume is a handsome one outwardly, and of the promoters of the evil. While this phase
is enriched by many illustrations from photo of Japanese expediency will scarcely commend
graphs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans, who itself to those naire and generous souls who
accompanied M. Bon valot on his journey. are ever for devising, some legislative hocus-
In the series of studies of contemporary Jap- pocus that may enable humanity to jump away
anese manners, morals, and politics, styled from its own shadow or to lift itself into the
“ The Real Japan,” the author, Mr. Henry empyrean by its own boot-straps, it has, as our
Norman, seems to fairly justify the tinge of author testifies, borne good fruit in Tokyo.
assumption in his title. The work, while not Mr. Norman's volume is handsomely printed
exhaustive, is the best in that it is least one- ' and illustrated.


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A fair general knowledge of the civilization the living perpendicular, and started into busy
and environment of our republican neighbors being.” Sir Edwin had, of course, facilities
in the Southern hemisphere is a factor of grow not commonly enjoyed by tourists for getting
ing importance in the consideration of our at the less obvious facts of Japanese life; and
home problems; and the very handsome vol his pages contain, apart from matter of senti-
ume entitled - The Spanish-American Repub ment and mere local color, information as to
lics,” by Theodore Child, a narrative of observa- political, intellectual, artistic, industrial, and
tion and travel in the five important republics militant Japan, that will appeal to practical
of Spanish South America, Chili, Peru, the readers. The volume is a handsomely deco-
Argentine, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is useful, rated octavo, containing a great many views
timely, and entertaining. Mr. Child has taken reproduced from photographs — the Japanese
pains to give the reader something more than character-pictures being notably striking.
the usual gatherings of a touring sight-seer. - Indika, the Country and People of India
In his account of Chili, for instance, in addi- and Ceylon," by Bishop John F. Hurst, is a
tion to the inevitable descriptions of streets, relatively important book in which the results
buildings, characteristic scenes, costumes, etc., of careful observation and ripe scholarship are
we find much practical information as to Chil presented in a pleasing and popular style. It
ian commerce, agriculture, and mining, and a is impossible here to fairly indicate the scope
detailed description of the nitrate industry and variety of so rich a volume; and we can
the present source of Chilian prosperity. The only say that upon a groundwork of person-
volume is suitably and liberally illustrated. al narrative furnished by his recent journey
Sir Edwin Arnold's “ Seas and Lands," a through India and Ceylon, during which nearly
reprint from the London - Daily Telegraph” all the larger cities— Bombay, Madras, Kandy,
of letters written by Sir Edwin during a recent Colombo, Calcutta — as well as many lesser
trip to Japan, is a delightful, optimistic book, places, were visited, Bishop Hurst has worked
full of pleasant words and wishes for every | in a copious array of facts illustrative of the
body and everything en route, written with a present social, political, and industrial condi-
gracious charm of manner and play of fancy tion of the country, accompanied, when expe-
that to most readers will atone for its rather dient, by a brief summary of historical ante-
too persistent note of praise. The author seems cedents, and by the careful deductions of later
to be blessed with a cheerful insensibility to study. “ Indika” is not to be confounded
the seamy side of things. A very different with the class of volumes made up of hasty
sort of “ chiel” from Mr. Matthew Arnold, or jottings of sense impressions, so many of which
ay ?—from Mr. Kipling, he crosses | nowadays pass muster as books of travel. It
our continent, in his swallow-flight to the land is profusely illustrated with cuts of views in
of the Daimios, without noticing any holes in town and country, notable buildings, charac-
our national coat worth mentioning, and with- teristic scenes, and rare and curious East In-
out paying the slightest attention to Mr. Mark dian products — including Mr. Rudyard Kip-
Tapley's sage advice as to “ blowing up the ling.
*Mericans.” In short, Sir Edwin is as unlike In her “ Jerusalem, the Holy City,” Mrs.
the proverbial touring Briton—the dissatisfied Oliphant adds a fourth volume to her popular
person whose prejudices are as infallible as his stories of famous cities. Under the four heads,
Bible and as essential as his hat-box, and “The House of David,” “The Prophets," " The
whose parochial by-laws at home are assumed Return and Restoration,” “ The Final Tra-
to be general principles for the guidance of the gedy,” she reviews the long story of Jewish
universe,- as well can be. About a third of history, with special reference to local associa-
the volume is devoted to the author's Ameri tions, and with a constant feeling for its wider
can experiences,— he writes in the kindliest religious import. Mrs. Oliphant gives the
way possible of Montreal and Toronto, Bos. reader prefatory warning that her book “has
ton, Harvard College, San Francisco, etc., - no claim upon the attention of the erudite."
and the rest to Japan, the delightful topsy-tur “Let them not,” she tartly adds, “lose ten
vey Lilliput, where, says Sir Edwin, " it is as tickings of their watch on this unprofitable
if you were living on a large painted and lac- reading.” We may at once say that the book
quered tea-tray, the figures of which, the gilded is written from the rather archaic standpoint
houses, the dwarf trees, and the odd landscape, of one to whom the agreeableness and vener-
suddenly jumped up from the dead plane into | ableness of Scriptural traditions preclude the


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propriety of critically examining them ; Mrs. of one Mr. Charles Waterton, a Yorkshire
Oliphant's faith as to the legendary husk of gentleman of good fortune, who seems to have
Christianity being apparently of the same preferred the society of Indians, jaguars, mon-
hardy quality as that of Sir Thomas Browne keys, anacondas, etc., in the forests of Guiana,
in what he termed the “ wingy mysteries " and to the hunts, assemblies, and board-meetings
* airy subtleties” of its essential doctrine. It of his native county. As Sidney Smith said
is to be regretted that the author has, in her of him in a review of the original edition of
introduction, gone out of her way to disparage the book, “He appears in early life to have
the work and impeach the motives of modern been seized with an unaccountable aversion to
Biblical scholars (she is specially petulant with Piccadilly, and to that train of meteorological
the Germans — of whom, by the way, she con questions and answers which forms the great
fesses “ I have read a little, but only a little”), staple of polite English conversation.” We
who have spent their lives and energies in the ourselves incline to suspect that Mr. Water-
effort to clear away historical slag in the ser- ton's “ Wanderings ” were originally prompted
vice of historical truth. We fail to see that by that curious craving of vogue, or affectation
there is better ground, à priori, for imputing of the heroic, that sends so many of his country-
dubious” motives to the “ Herrn Wellhausen, men tiger-hunting in India, lion-hunting in
Kuenen, etc.," who chose Jewish history as Africa, and, occasionally, man-hunting when-
the field for their researches, than there would ever and wherever the sport may be pursued
be for imputing them to Professor Niebuhr, with comparative safety and show of right, in
for instance, who chose Roman history as the the hope of a season of lionizing in the draw-
field for his; and who has also, incidentally, ing-rooms at home. Some of Mr. Waterton's
pricked sundry pleasantly prismatic historical exploits were of an amazing, not to say Mun-
bubbles, regardless of their picturesque effect chausen-like, character. Upon one occasion he
and gratefully emotional qualities. “The Story captured a large anaconda by first pinning the
of Jerusalem,” while it falls considerably short head of the creature to the ground with his
of the author's delightful “Makers of Florence," lance, and then throwing himself bodily upon
is graphic and sympathetic, and may be read the tail. The snake vigorously resisting such
with pleasure by those to whom it is addressed. liberties from a stranger, Mr. Waterton found
In point of illustration, letter-press, and gen himself obliged to
eral make-up, the publishers have left nothing “Call out to the second negro to throw himself upon
to be desired.
me, as I found I was not heavy enough. . . So, while
the first negro continued to hold the lance firm to the
A vivacious, pleasantly-written narrative of
ground, and the other was helping me, I contrived to un-
personal experiences, judiciously sprinkled with
loose my braces, and with them tied up the creature's
casual bits of geographical, industrial, and eth mouth."
nological information, is Mr. Maturin M. Bal- Having seen Mr. Waterton in the role of St.
lou's - Equatorial America,” descriptive of a George, the reader is prepared to see him in
recent visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barba that of Arion ; and in a subsequent chapter
does, and the principal capitals of South Amer we behold him bestriding a crocodile:
ica — Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Janiero, “I jumped on his back, turning half round as I vaulted,
Santos, Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso, Callao, etc. so that I gained my seat with my face in a right posi-
Mr. Ballou would seem to have been “on
tion. I immediately seized his fore-legs, and, by main
force, twisted them on his back; thus they served me
pleasure bent,” the duration of his stay in each
for a bridle. . . Should it be asked how I kept my seat,
place being apparently measured by its re I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Dar-
sources in the way of novelty and entertain lington's fox hounds."
ment; hence we are not to look to his book The exploit and the answer have a curious
for fact and deduction of a very serious and smack of Mr. Lever's miraculous Irishmen.
determined character. There is plenty of in- | It is only fair to say that Mr. Waterton does
formation, however, of the sort usually picked not confine himself to the long bow, his book
up by observant literary pilgrims,— we think, containing much that is both credible and in-
J
by the way, the author might have credited
aredited forming.
his readers with a better knowledge of ele Charles Augustus Stoddard's “ Across Rus-
mentary geography,— and this is agreeably im- sia from the Baltic to the Danube" is a rapid
parted. There are no illustrations.
résumé of the writer's experiences during his
- Wanderings in South America” is a re-trip from Paris to Buda-Pesth, via Hull, the
print of the entertaining story of the adventures | German Ocean, Stockbolm, Finland, St. Peters-


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burg, Moscow, Warsaw, and Cracow. The journals. He had also begun, and is said to have
writer saw the stock sights on his route, and nearly completed, the chapters on Old-English lit-
describes them tersely, interlarding his descrip-
erature in Paul's Grundriss der Germanischen
tions with apposite historical matter after the
Philologie.
Since the publication of his Chaucerian Gram-
fashion of the fuller sort of guide-books. There
mar, Professor Ten Brink had devoted himself to
are a number of well-chosen illustrations.
literature rather than philology in its narrower
EDWARD GILPIN JOHNSON. sense, but he was the inspiration of more than one
who has made himself distinguished as a linguist.
Kluge, in particular, is always ready to acknowl-
BERNHARD TEN BRINK.
edge his indebtedness, and more than once has been
the means of bringing to light facts and ideas which
There are chords of sympathy that bind us to he owed to his old teacher, but which the latter had
those whose books we have read, whose train of not cared to put into print. Modesty was one of
thought we have followed, and whose teaching has the chief characteristics of the man ; tenaciously as
influenced our actions, though they may dwell in a he held to his own opinion (observe his adherence
foreign land and speak a strange tongue. And to the four-stress theory in Germanic verse ), he was
when we learn that they have passed away, the always modest in the asserting of it. And his writ-
heart is touched, and we read with interest details ings lacked that bitterness and personality that sully
as to their daily life and their dealings with those the polemics of most German philologians.
about them. The sympathy is greater, and the Thus far, Ten Brink alone has written a satisfac-
heart more sensitive, when we have at one time tory history of our early literature. Much reading
come into personal contact with them, and have and the enthusiasm of a dilettante were not his
listened to their words as they fell from their lips. only preparation. He brought to the task the thor-
As the English of some centuries ago were wont ough training of a German philologian. Moreover,
to cross the Channel and seek learning and inspira as an interpreter of literature he was gifted with a
tion in Italian universities, so we to-day make pil rare keenness of perception and fineness of feeling,
grimage to Germany; but one may well marvel at and with a richness of fancy that one does not look
the attraction that has for a score of years led En for in a Dutchman. I have often marvelled, as I
glish-speaking men to traverse the Atlantic in order sat watching his rather stolid figure and the face
to study English speech and literature in Germany that lacked expression but for those keen quick
at the feet of a Hollander. Now that he who was eyes and the smile that would occasionally break
the inspiration of our studies has been laid to rest through the cloud that seemed constantly to hang
on the bank of the Rhine, it is fitting that one of about it,--I have marvelled at the fineness of the
us give expression to our appreciation of him and nature that dwelt within. His perception of the
our sorrow at his death.
relations of things, his ability to associate cause
Bernhard Ten Brink was born in Amsterdam in with probable effect and effect with unseen cause,
1841, of the Catholic branch of the Ten Brink fam and his vivid realization of the fact that men and
ily. A Dutchman by birth and breeding, he early women have always been men and women just as
began his studies in Germany, and subsequently we know them to-day,--this power of mind and
became a citizen of that country. At first he devoted heart enabled him to clothe with flesh and blood
himself chiefly to the Romance languages, studying the dry bones of history, and to read in a name
under Diez at Bonn, and presenting a doctor's the and a date a whole chapter of life. It is not strange
sis in that department. He had, however, studied that this very faculty led him where others could
English philology under Delius, and soon directed not follow (as in the case of his theories as to the
all his energies to this field of work, for which his composition of the Beowulf), and then exposed
intimate acquaintance with Romance philology and him to the arrows of his opponents.
two important Teutonic tongues preëminently fitted As a lecturer, when he had but to read what he
him. Ten Brink's first call was to Marburg, where had already carefully worked out, as in the case of
he was assistant professor of English, and soon pub his lectures on Shakespeare, he was not only in-
lished his Chaucer Studien. But on the establish structive but fascinating; but in his regular course
ment of the Imperial University at Strassburg in on metre, there were many necessary interruptions
1872, he was called to the chair of English, where and much writing on the blackboard, and his higher
he remained ever afterward, though repeatedly qualities were not brought into play. As a teacher,
urged to accept a call to Göttingen and other insti he varied. If the class was large and there were
tutions; and it is with Strassburg that he will al- beginners in it, he mounted his high platform, and
ways be associated in the minds of his students. | from behind the desk ruled as a pedagogue. Then
Here he produced, one after the other, his Chau woe to any luckless fellow who presented an idea
cers Sprache und Verskunst (1884), the first vol- he had but incompletely thought out, or whose work
umes of his famous Geschichte der Englischen Lit- bore any traces of shallowness. At these recita-
teratur (1877-1889), and his Beowulf Studien tions there was not the most economical use made
(1888), besides many contributions to philological | of time, and some of us Americans, whose stay at


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Strassburg was necessarily limited, felt justified in a fact that gives peculiar value to his history of
complaining. The hour would often pass without | English literature.
any perceptible progress being made, and but a For many years Professor Ten Brink had suf-
fraction of the work planned for the semester was | fered poor health. Like many German scholars,
done when the time was up. But in the seminary he did not perceive the need of caring for his phys-
it was different. The number of students was lim ical well-being until it was too late. When he be-
ited, and all were such as were doing advanced came incapacitated for work, he would go to his
work. Ten Brink would then come down and sit physician and for a time follow his prescription,
in our midst. The hour was given up to one man, who abstaining from what might hurt him, and taking a
presented the result of work that had often occupied daily walk. But as he got a little better, he would
him a considerable time. We all took part in the become careless again, and was even fond of joking
discussion, and Professor Ten Brink's presence was on the subject. In the spring of 1888 he was forced
that of a wise and kind adviser and helper.
to stay some time at Baden Baden, and it was my
But it was in his kneipe that I found Ten Brink good fortune to spend a Sunday there with him and
at his best. I have been a member of the kneipes his family. In the morning we wandered about
of various German professors, but I look back to the town, visiting the Konversationshaus, Fried-
none but this with any sense of real pleasure. When richsbad, and other places of interest. In the af-
a German professor sits at the head of a beer-table ternoon we climbed up to the ruins of the old castle
about which are gathered his seminary students, he Hohenbaden. We followed the yellow marks on
is as a king among his courtiers. The circumstances the trees, which indicate the most gradual ascent,
bring out the character of the man. Some assume for it was only these ways that Ten Brink's physician
dignity, and keep all at a cool distance; some put | allowed him to go. Mrs. Ten Brink and the children
off the constraint of the lecture room, and are, for went on ahead, while he and I came up slowly be-
the time, boys again with the rest ; some even take hind. At every break in the ascent, he would stop,
their students into their confidence, and entertain “ um ein bischen Luft zu schnappen," as he would
them with the small jealousies and scandals that say, and smile. But I knew that it was from sheer
exist among those of their calling. In Ten Brink weakness that he did it. After a family lunch in
there was dignity without the assumption of it, cor the forester's room at the castle, we climbed to the
diality without undue familiarity, and no sign of a platform of the tower and enjoyed the splendid
tendency to belittle or scandalize his colleagues. view of the Rhine Valley from Speyer to beyond
When I came to Strassburg, Professor Ten Brink Strassburg. The trip did Professor Ten Brink
had not had a kneipe for some time. That it was good and brought new color to his cheeks. When
revived, came about in this way: As usual, there alone with his wife, I suggested that his stay at the
were a number of Americans in his seminary-at baths was benefiting him. She knew him better
the time we were in the majority,—and Ten Brink than I, and would not be comforted. She feared
did not disguise the pleasure he took in this foreign he would never be better, she said. The hand of
contingent. One of our number became the father death was indeed already upon him. He died at
of a little boy, and when the news came to Ten, his home in Strassburg, January 29, after a brief
Brink, he said, “Why, we must celebrate it at confinement to his bed.
GEORGE HEMPL.
once.” That night three or four of us spent an
hour with him at the Germania Restaurant, and
every week thereafter all his seminary students
gathered about him in a little private room at the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
same place. He did not sit at the head of the table, In preparing his Story of Portugal” (Put-
but at the side, and was wont to lean up against nam), Mr. H. Morse Stephens has had the advan-
the wainscotted wall and look out from under his , tage and the disadvantage which fall to a pioneer,
bushy eyebrows with that critical and yet kindly for his is the first history of that little country.
gaze that gave a man confidence while it warned Consequently, whatever may be its merits, this book
him that he must speak no nonsense. The number must be welcomed, for in it one may find a fairly
of Americans among us gave the meeting an inter- | correct and intelligible narrative of a most interest-
national character; we ate or drank as we pleased, ing land. The great Affonso Henriques, the greater
and felt no constraint to drink beer if we did not John, “the fortunate” Emmanuel, may now take a
want to. We always spoke German, but the talk place in popular knowledge beside the only two
was oftener of British and American institutions princes of Portugal whom, we venture to say, the
and men-of-letters than of German. When the talk reading public of to-day know: Henry the Navi-
did fall upon things at home, and anyone tried to gator and Dom Sebastian. In truth, it may even
draw out of Professor Ten Brink an opinion as to be doubted whether the many who know Dryden's
some philologian he was known not to favor, the ode of “ Alexander's Feast ” ever heard of his
worst he would say was, “ Der ist ein sonderbarer “Don Sebastian” or of the hero who was its orig-
Heiliger," an expression that always reminded one inal. Mr. Stephens has, rightly, much to say about
of his religion. Like his favorite, Chaucer, he was the political relations between England and Portu-
a good Catholic, but a frank critic of the church,- | gal, which date from the fourteenth century, when


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Englishmen began to consume port wine in ex calendars of state papers and in foreign archives.
change for English long cloths. Interesting chap Yet “the perusal of all these documents leaves the
ters on Portugal in Brazil and in India occur, and broad aspect of the story,” in the author's opinion,
the great ministry of Pombal is given due space. “ precisely where it was.” He finds “nothing to
And yet we regret that the truly great historian of withdraw," and “ little to alter save in correcting
the French Revolution saw fit to intermit his labors some small errors of trivial moment.” He still con-
in a field where he is a master, to produce a work siders Catholicism “a corrupt and demoralising
which will not enhance his reputation. Hurriedly superstition,” the monasteries were “nests of de-
written, the book is not only guilty of erroneous pravity” and “special servants of the Devil,” the
statements, but is based upon fundamental error. Pope was “an Italian conjuror who professed to be
It is inexcusable to still continue to follow the Port- able for a consideration to turn wrong into right."
uguese chronicles in their confusion of Raymond of The Reformation was “an infinitely blessed revo-
Burgundy with so famous a man as Raymond of lution,” the root and source of the expansive force
Toulouse, the great crusader, før Mr. Stephens's which has spread the Anglo-Saxon Race over the
studies in French history should have led him to globe, and imprinted the English genius and charac-
old Catel, who, in his “ Comtes de Tolose," cor- ter on the constitution of mankind.” Hence Mr
rected the Portuguese bunglers nearly two centuries Froude was “ unwilling to believe more evil than'
ago. Again, an Englishman should not transform he could help, of his "countrymen who accomplished
two stout Dutch worthies like William Count of so beneficent a work," and determined to disregard
Holland and George Count of Waes into English other sources of information and judge the reform-
earls,-- and yet they parade in this book as theers only by the acts of Parliament and their pre-
Earls of Holland and Wight. Mr. Stephens ambles. Henry VIII. passed important acts of re-
knows that a crusader who went to the Holy Land form,- from the best of motives, the preambles
in 1103-05 was not thereby participating in the assure us; therefore Henry VIII. deserves our ad-
Second Crusade; and he ought to know that he has miration. “The English Liturgy survives to tell
not proved, and cannot prove, that Lusitania was us what Cranmer was." The infinite blessedness
not the nucleus of the modern Portugal. It would of the Revolution sanctifies the revolutionists and
be interesting to have his authority for the state the means which they employed. This is the es-
ment that Lusitania never went north of the Tagus. sence of Mr. Froude's argument, and the argument
But his whole conception of Portugal, both geo needs only to be stripped of his plausible rhetoric
graphical and ethnographical, is wrong, as that em- to show its weakness. One can admire the beauty
inent authority, Oswald Crawford, has forcibly of the English Liturgy and still hold that Cranmer
shown in the August number of “ The Fortnightly | lacked moral strength, just as one can accept the
Review” for 1891. The man who can write of results of the French Revolution without approving
Portugal — “ With no' natural boundaries to distin of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror. This dis-
guish it from that larger portion of the peninsula tinction Mr. Froude cannot see. Either the Re-
called Spain, its inhabitants spring from the same formation was good and its supporters were good,
stock as the Spaniards, and their language differs or it was bad and its supporters were bad ; there is
but slightly from the Spanish,”— was hardly called to him no other ground. Mr. Froude is master of
by necessity to write the history of Portugal. Mr. an engaging style. He is honest, and does not sup-
Crawford's assistance was not needed to correct the press or distort facts which tell against him. Many
first misstatement — such an atlas as Stieler's will of his conclusions meet with a wider acceptance than
refute that. But if one would know who the Portu- they did thirty years ago. His extreme views have
guese are, what is the reason of Portugal's entity, often, as in the case of Henry VIII., led to a more
what the natural cause-greater than port wine just appreciation of men and events. Yet when all
of her long association with England, and what are has been said, the fact remains that he is a parti-
her future prospects, let him read the valuable ar- san and expects his readers to be partisans, and his
ticle cited from “ The Fortnightly," and then he one-sidedness vitiates much of his historical work.
may safely fill in details from Mr. Stephens. He
will then get philosophical explanation, and not
The story of the evolution of art is an especially
mere chronicle.
fruitful and fascinating chapter in the science of
anthropology, and we take pleasure in commending
The first volumes of Mr. Froude's “ History of Mr. William Martin Conway's little book, “ Dawn
England” were published thirty-five years ago. In of Art in the Ancient World” (Macmillan), as a
stead of issuing a new edition embodying the ma- readable and suggestive manual in which the reader
terial that has since been brought to light, the is called upon to consider the historical meaning
author has retold the history of the years between rather than the æsthetic charms of the objects re-
1526 and 1536 in a supplementary volume on ferred to. The demarcation between the scientific
“ The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon” (Scribner). and the artistic categories of mental activity was
The story is given in considerable detail, largely once sufficiently distinct; but the rays from the
from the letters of the imperial ambassador Cha- lamp of science creep into unsuspected crannies, and
puys, and the book shows much research in the art-history is to-day become a pregnant branch of


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scientific inquiry, pursued by scientific methods, he says of his friend, “I have not uttered one word
and productive -- ancient art-works bridging over ! to which he himself would not have subscribed.”
more effectually than other relics the chasm be The most important chapters of the work are those
tween us and bygone peoples — of important sci- which relate to the part played by Wagner as a
entific results. The famous bit of engraved bone, Dresden revolutionist in 1849, and to the London
for example, turned up by the spade of the French season of 1855. And, incidentally, the book in-
“ Monkbarns” from the concreted floor of a cave cludes nothing more interesting than the extracts
in the Dordogne, has disclosed a period of artistic | from the London papers of the latter date upon the
activity of a remoteness that stamps the Assyrian subject of Wagner's music. The onslaught upon
sculptors of Sennacherib and the Memphian artists Keats and Shelley, so famous in literary history,
of Rameses or Sesostris as chronologically quite of seems innocuous in comparison with the onslaught
the modern school, thus rendering our “ Old Mas | of The Times” and “ The Atheneum " upon the
ters” a ludicrous misnomer. This venerable intag composer of “Tannhäuser” and “Lohengrin."
lio, the work, doubtless, of some palæolithic aurochs Now that Wagner has forever taken his place
hunter, is asserted, on fairly credible evidence, to among the immortals, we can afford to smile at the
date from a period some 244,000 years before the malice and ignorance then displayed ; but we can
creation of Adam according to the ingenious Arch- | easily understand how they must have worked upon
bishop Ussher,— the ray from the lamp of science a nature as excitable as that of their subject. The
here fitting into another out-of-the-way cranny. In most important thing to say about the book is that
the present volume, under the chapter-headings it presents to us a man not without faults, but still
“Art in the Stone Age,” “The Invention of Bronze," essentially lovable, and enables us to see something
“ The Legacy of Egypt," “ The Legacy of Chal- of the workings of a mind absolutely steadfast in
dea,” “ The Heirs of Chaldea," the author presents its devotion to truth. It is a delineation not in-
a rapid survey of the archæological field, seeking consistent with the colossal genius revealed in his
to suggest rather than to inform, and pointing out works, and affords a much-needed corrective to the
the connections which exist, or which he supposes distorted portraits of which envy has been so pro-
to exist, between the various areas of prehistoric lific, and which have given rise to the rather preva-
and early historic archæology, rather than investi- | lent but wholly erroneous impression that Wagner,
gating any of them in particular. The kernel of | however great as a composer, was contemptible as
these chapters is the substance of three lectures de- , a man.
livered at the Royal Institution in 1891 ; and they
present, as Mr. Conway tells us, not so much a sur-
The attractive series of "Heroes of the Nations”
(Putnam ) still continues, and makes one almost
vey of known facts as “an account of the deduc-
tions, impressions, hardy generalizations, and even
long for his boyhood again, to have that fine sense
sometimes the guesses of an individual mind in the
of enjoyment of such books which can come to the
presence of those facts.” The preliminary chapter
boy alone. The volume on Philip Sidney, by H. R.
on “ The Succession of Ideals," and the closing
Fox Bourne, is by no 'prentice hand or novice in
chapter on “ The Cats of Ancient Egypt," while
the discussion of the life of that peerless knight.
not strictly in harmony with the body of the work,
Thirty years ago Mr. Bourne published his - Me-
are acceptable additions to it.
moir of Sir Philip Sidney," and the present book
embraces the results of much valuable research
PROFESSOR FERDINAND PRAEGER'S “Wagner as since that volume appeared. In that interval also
I Knew Him” (Longmans ) is not wholly, as the the writer has given forth interesting contributions
title would seem to indicate, a volume of personal to the history of English seafaring and commercial
reminiscence. The author was, indeed, intimately life, and now returns to his first love. The aim in
acquainted with the composer, but, living from boy the present volume is “ to bring into prominence,
hood almost uninterruptedly in London, his actual and to keep always in view, but without exaggera-
intercourse with Wagner was confined to the lat tion or distortion, the chivalrous aspect of Sir
ter's London season of 1855 and to a few brief so Philip Sidney's life, and its relations in that respect
journs upon the Continent. The important fact, with the history of his time and country, with the
however, is that similarity of interests and early as- contemporaries among whom he moved, who influ-
sociations led to a very close intimacy between the enced him and who were influenced by him.” The
two when they were brought together, an intimacy writer enters again into the interminable contro-
that is best illustrated by mentioning that Profes- versy over the “ Astrophel and Stella ” sonnets, and
sor Praeger is one of the very few people whom abandons the views which he advanced in 1862.
Wagner allowed to read his autobiography. That He holds now to the interpretation of these son-
autobiography will probably be given to the world, | nets in the spirit of the Troubadour and courts-of-
according to Wagner's desire, when his son Sieg love school, as purely ideal, and so redeems the
fried attains his majority, but for the present the character of his hero. The interpretation of Lloyd's
book now in question must take its place. And “ Life of Sidney,” adopted also by “ The Edin-
this book is really a very complete life of Wagner burgh Review” in 1876, commends itself more
down to 1865, for we may trust the author when I to those who like to think of Sidney as carrying


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beneath his chivalrous exterior a serious and manful cerning the right method of the study of English
character, and so read in the sonnets “ the struggle Literature in English universities. Hitherto the
in a noble mind between conscience and passion, study of Literature in these institutions has been
with the final victory of the right.” It is strange mainly a study of Philology. A majority of uni-
that Mr. Bourne argues for the unreality of the versity officials have maintained, and many of them
sentiments in these sonnets from the conceits of still maintain, that Literature, as distinguished from
Spenser's “ Astrophel,” where “ Stella, instead of Philology, is not a subject susceptible of solid and
continuing for nearly twenty years longer to be systematic treatment in teaching; that it is too in-
Lady Rich and ending her days as Countess of tangible, affording no basis for a superstructure of
Devonshire, tore herself in pieces over the dying positive instruction; that it would degenerate into
body of Astrophel." No one would stand for the cram,” or mere dilettantism. Mr. Collins, on the
literalness of this last catastrophe on any interpre other hand, and there are many who agree with
tation, but it has been held by most critics that the him, including such distinguished names as Cardinal
“ Stella ” of Spenser's fine elegy is Sidney's wife. Manning, Mr. Gladstone, Professor Jowett, Mat-
If this is not true, the propriety of the dedication thew Arnold, Professor Huxley, Mr. Froude, and
of the “ Astrophel ” to her by Spenser is not ap Sir Theodore Martin, — insists that English Litera-
parent.
ture can be taught; that to say that literature is a
AMONG the curios of the literature of the stage is
subject peculiarly susceptible to “cram” is absurd ;
that because it has not been reduced to a system
“ The Life of an Actor,” by Pierce Egan, recently
in the past is no evidence that it cannot be so re-
reprinted in London by Pickering & Chatto. It
duced ; that the first desideratum is a recognition
was written in the early part of the present century,
of, the essential distinction between Philology and
and is now reproduced in a formidable volume of
Literature, and the second a recognition of the im-
several hundred pages with facsimiles of the orig-
portance of combining the study of the hational
inal colored plates. It is disappointing. From a
classics with the existing study of the ancient clas-
list of conspicuous actors of the time, which is given
sics ; and that at present secondary education is
in a sort of prologue — including such names as
Edmund Kean, John Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs.
suffering greatly in consequence of the failure of
the universities to recognize these facts. Mr. Col-
Jordan, Madame Vestris, Joseph Grimaldi, and
lins's position is in entire harmony with the mod-
many others almost equally famous in the annals of
ern tendency to assign a more important place than
the stage — it is naturally expected that interesting
formerly to the study of English Literature as a
sketches and entertaining incidents from their ca-
part of liberal education, and, his arguments being
reers will be found within the covers of a volume
well put and well reasoned, the book is highly in-
large enough to tell the stories of all their lives.
But there is little of all this in the present work.
teresting and valuable.
It purports to be a humorous history of a stage For some years readers and teachers desirous of
struck hero named Peregrine Proteus, who, accom an introduction to our Oldest English have been
panied by a fidus Achates known as Horatio Quill, obliged to look to English and German sources, the
goes through a barn-storming experience from an readers of March and Corson, excellent as they were
apprenticeship in a printer's office to the manage- in their day, being somewhat out of date. The text-
ment of a metropolitan theatre. Some notion may book most commonly used has been Sweet's “Anglo-
be gathered, from a succession of scenes in his rural Saxon Reader," printed at the Clarendon Press.
histrionic career, of the trials and tribulations which All who are interested in the subject will welcome
beset the course of a travelling actor's life half a a much better book from an American source. To
century ago; but otherwise the book raises the the industry and sound scholarship of Professor
question whether the humor of other days was James W. Bright, of the Johns Hopkins University,
equal in sprightliness and verve to the humor of we now owe an “ Anglo-Saxon Reader" (Holt)
our own day, or whether the loss of local color is with which very little fault can be found. The
fatal to the spirit of humor. At all events, the book texts are well selected and collated with great care.
is tedious for the most part. It has many elements In every respect this reader must be pronounced
of coarseness, both in the text and in the illustra superior to Sweet's, its only rival. The notes are
tions. The author, like Silas Wegg, drops into po more helpful; there is a valuable appendix on An-
etry upon the slightest provocation, and it becomes glo-Saxon versification; and, best of all, the Glos-
necessary to search in a mass of chaff for a few sary is far better. As Sweet's Reader is prefaced
grains of entertainment. It is a wonder that this by a Grammatical Introduction and Bright's is not,
dreary life of an inconsequential vagabond has been it should be mentioned that the student is expected
reprinted in such an elaborate fashion.
to consult Professor Cook's admirable edition of
Sievers's “Old English Grammar.” Those desirous
MR. John CHURTON COLLINS, in “ The Study of of taking up Old English without a teacher will
English Literature” (Macmillan), makes his mod- find Bright's Reader well suited to their purpose.
est contribution to the notable controversy which, The Glossary explains, by page and line references,
after five years of discussion, is still unsettled, con- | every important use of every word in the book.


1892.]
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Mrs. Piozzi's piquant “Glimpses of Italian So-
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
ciety in the Eighteenth Century,” familiar to many
April, 1892.
older readers, is made tempting to younger ones
also by a tasteful modern reprint (Scribner). Dr.
Agassiz at Penikese. D. S. Jordan. Popular Science.
Johnson's lively friend seems to have undertaken
Air and Health. H. Wager. Popular Science.
Americans at Home in Europe. W. H. Bishop. Atlantic.
her Italian journey largely to avoid the social chari-
Astronomy. A. D. White. Popular Science.
vari — in which the lexicographer bore a conspicu Bacteria in Dairy Products. H. W. Conn. Popular Science.
ous share — that followed her second marriage. Balestier, Wolcott. J. R. Campbell. Century.
“ Society," with its usual acumen, having decided
Bartram, John and William. Popular Science.
Battle Ships. J. M. Ellicott. Atlantic.
that the widow of a man who brewed beer had
Black Forest to the Black Sea. Illus. F. D. Millet. Harper.
lowered herself by marrying a man who taught | Black Hills, The. Antoinette Ogden. Atlantic.
music — a verdict perhaps not uninfluenced by the Blind, Teaching the. J. P. Ritter. Chautauquan.
relative profitableness of the two callings,-pro-
California Lion Hunting. Illus, Helen E. Bandini. Overland.
Climate Variation. W. H. Larrabee. Popular Science.
ceeded forthwith to make things unpleasant for the
Columbus, Christopher. W. F. Poole. Dial.
offender; and Mrs. Piozzi was anxious that her Disfranchisement, Legal. Atlantic.
residence abroad should prove not only an escape Eclipses of 1889. Illus. E. S. Holden. Century.
from those “ poisoned arrows of private malignity"
Educational System, Our. W. T. Harris. Chautauquan.
Eliot, George, and Mrs. Humphry Ward. North American.
of which she speaks in her preface, but also a means
English Public Schools. By an English Writer. Harper.
of raising Piozzi in the eyes of “the world” by Farragut, Admiral. E. K. Rawson. Atlantic.
showing that he was cordially welcomed in his Fiction, Recent Books of. W. M. Payne. Dial.
own country. It is pleasant to record that Mrs.
French and Indian War. J. G. Nicolay. Chautauquan.
French Girls. Madame Adam. North American.
Piozzi was quite as well received in Italy as the
French Impressionist Painters. Cecilia Waern. Atlantic.
wife of the man of sharps and flats as she would Genoa. Illus. Murat Halstead. Cosmopolitan.
have been as the widow of the man of vats and German History, Two Great Decades of. C.H. Cooper. Dial.
tubs — British social statutes not running (at that
Greek Painted Sculpture. Illus. E. Robinson. Century.
Homes of the Renaissance. Illus. W. Wood. Cosmopolitan.
day) so far beyond British frontiers. Mrs. Piozzi's
Immigration. J. B. Weber and C. S. Smith. No. American.
descriptions are lively, anecdotal, full of local color, Indian Fair in Mexican Hot Country. Illus. S. Baxter. Harp.
and may still be read with pleasure. The volume Indians, Our. Kate Carnes. Chautauquan.
contains a well-written introduction by the Countess Keene, Charles. Illus. George Somes. Scribner.
Literary Editors. Melville Philips. Lippincott.
Evelyn Martinengo Caesaresco, who reviews the
Literature and the Ministry. L. W. Spring. Atlantic.
narrative from the Italian standpoint.
Lotteries, Federal Taxation of. T. M. Cooley. Atlantic.
Mashonaland, So. Africa. Illus. Frank Mandy. Scribner.
Miss E. S. KIRKLAND'S “ Short History of En-
Mexico's Free Zone. M. Romero. North American.
gland” (McClurg) may be expected to take its
Michigan's Electors. E. B. Winans. North American.
Money and Usury. Henry Clews. North American.
place at once as the standard history of England
Movement, Involuntary. Illus. Jos. Jastrow. Pop. Science.
for young people, and to displace that most fas Negro in America. Henry Watterson. Chautauquan.
cinating but most discouraging classic, Dickens's Negro Question, The. T. N. Page. North American.
* Child's History of England.” Miss Kirkland has
New York Parks. Illus. E. S. Nadal. Scribner.
Nihilism and the Famine. Illus. Lippincott.
most happily discovered how to be entertaining
Olympian Religion, III. W. E. Gladstone. North American.,
without being funny, and understands thoroughly Orchestral Instruments. Illus. D. Spillane. Pop. Science.
the teaching function of all history. In a narrative Paris Theatres, III. Illus. W. F. Apthorp. Scribner,
of four hundred pages the author covers a period
Patriotism and Politics. Cardinal Gibbons. North American.
Pearl Fishing in Australia. Illus. Century.
of twelve hundred years, in the simplest and clear-
Plants. Gerald McCarthy. Chautauquan.
est English, and with the propriety of speech which Poetry. E. C. Stedman. Century..
history demands, yet allowing the great events Poetry and Eloquence. John Burroughs. Chautauquan.
which it chronicles to present themselves, even to a
Rapid Transit. C. D. Wright. Popular Science.
Reciprocity and the Farmer. H. A. Herbert. No. American.
child of ten, with the large human and personal in-
Roads, Our Common, Illus. I. B. Potter. Century.
terest which appeals so strongly to the young. The Russian Peasants. Lillie B. C. Wyman. Chautauquan.
volume is a worthy companion to the successful San Francisco Water Front. Illus. C. S. Greene. Overland.
“Short History of France” by the same author.
Science and Fine Art. E. Du Bois-Reymond. Pop. Science.
Sea Songs, American. A. M. Williams. Atlantic.
Shelley's Last Days. Nlus. Guido Biagi. Harper.
GEORGE Long's standard translation of “ The
Socialism in London. Illus. R. A. Woods. Scribner.
Discourses of Epictetus,” together with “ The En Ten Brink, Bernhard. George Hempl. Dial.
cheiridion” and “Fragments,” is re-issued in two Theatre of Today. Cora Maynard. Cosmopolitan.
compact comely volumes, clearly printed on hand-
Tolstoï's Family Life. Cosmopolitan.
Torpedoes in Coast Defence. Illus. Cosmopolitan.
made paper, by George Bell & Sons of London. A
Transatlantic-Liner Crews. Illus. Cosmopolitan.
short biographical sketch of Epictetus, and an In Travel, Recent Books of. E. G. Johnson. Dial.
troduction generally expository of the Stoic phi Typhus Fever. Cyrus Edson. North American.
losophy as taught by him, are prefixed to the vol-
University and Practical Life. C. T. Hopkins. Overland.
ume. The merits of Mr. Long's translation are
Washington's Mother and Birthplace. Illus. Century.
Western City Management. Julian Ralph. Harper.
well established, and the present edition of it is one Wounded Knee Massacre. Illus. W. E. Dougherty. Overland.
that will at once commend itself to fastidious readers. Yorktown, Siege of. E. C. Haynes. Chautauquan.


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Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage Landor.
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Macmillan & Co. $1.25.
Lessons Learned from Other Lives. By B. O. Flower.
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Theocritus Translated into English Verse. By C. S. Cal-
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Horæ Sabbaticæ. Reprint of articles contributed to "The
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In 2 vols., 12mo, pp. 317. Macmillan & Co. Per vol.,
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Selections from Lucian. Translated by Emily James
Smith. 16mo, pp. 287, gilt top, uncut edges. Harper &
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Madame Thérèse. By Erekmann Chatrian. Edited and
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Le Chant du Cygne. By Georges Ohnet. Sq. 16mo, pp.
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From the Usher's Desk to the Tabernacle Pulpit: The
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